{"id":657543,"date":"2026-01-08T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657543"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:01:49","slug":"airport-shrinks-bus-bay-space-flyers-pay-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airport-shrinks-bus-bay-space-flyers-pay-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport shrinks bus bay space, flyers pay the price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Barely days after facing flak from passengers for shifting the pick-up point for pre-booked taxis nearly 800 metres away from Terminal 1 (T1), Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) landed in fresh trouble: This time, over reducing space for state-run BMTC&#8217;s much-used Vayu Vajra airport buses.<\/p>\n<p>Transport minister Ramalinga Reddy, who visited Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) Wednesday, came down strongly on the airport operator, making it clear that the removal of a row of bus bays reserved for BMTC was &#8220;just not acceptable&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Barely days after facing flak from passengers for shifting the pick-up point for pre-booked taxis nearly 800 metres away from Terminal 1 (T1), Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) landed in fresh trouble: This time, over reducing space for state-run BMTC&#8217;s much-used Vayu Vajra airport buses. Transport minister Ramalinga Reddy, who visited Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) Wednesday, came down strongly on the airport operator, making it clear that the removal of a row of bus bays reserved for BMTC was &#8220;just not acceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}