{"id":13052,"date":"2013-09-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/24\/ganapati-brings-western-railway-central-railway-million-dollar-boon\/"},"modified":"2013-09-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T12:00:00","slug":"ganapati-brings-western-railway-central-railway-million-dollar-boon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/24\/ganapati-brings-western-railway-central-railway-million-dollar-boon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganapati Brings Western Railway, Central Railway Million-Dollar Boon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2013-09-21\/mumbai\/42271695_1_central-railway-rs-western-railway-ganpati\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 21, 2013 (Manthan K. Mehta, TNN): The 10-day Ganapati festival brought a major revenue boost to Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR), with the two collectively earning US$1.6 million more than usual. The suburban railway network saw an average of 430,000 passengers more per day during the just-concluded Ganeshotsav festival.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, September 16, the CR network saw a record-breaking 6.5 million passengers compared to the daily average of 4 million, an increase of 62% in passenger traffic. On the same day, WR saw 4.95 million passengers compared to the daily average of 3.5 million, an increase of 42%.<\/p>\n<p>A CR official said the passenger count on September 16 was the highest for a day seen so far on the suburban network. &#8220;It surpassed the till-date highest tally of 5.5 million commuters registered on August 20, the day of Rakshabandhan,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During big festivals like Ganpati, Navratri or Diwali, rail transport is the swiftest as roads are usually clogged,&#8221; a senior official said. &#8220;Many vehicles get caught in traffic jams for hours as the road width gets decreased due to the erection of pandals, thus blocking the smooth flow of traffic. In such a scenario, even non-rail travelers jump on the train to avoid traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 21, 2013 (Manthan K. Mehta, TNN): The 10-day Ganapati festival brought a major revenue boost to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}