{"id":197712,"date":"2019-07-15T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2019\/07\/15\/commuters-stranded-due-to-shortage-of-transport\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:45:03","slug":"commuters-stranded-due-to-shortage-of-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/commuters-stranded-due-to-shortage-of-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters stranded due to shortage of transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2019_7$large_taxi_dmu.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Unlike in previous years during monsoon season, presently commuters between Dimapur and Kohima have to cope not only with deplorable road conditions, but also with inadequate public transport facilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is huge rush of passengers seeking tickets at ticket counters especially on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>It was seen that many taxis plying between Kohima and Dimapur arrived very late due to road conditions, so not enough taxis were available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a taxi operator, the heavy rush was due to this problem. Students returning from vacations and proceeding to Kohima were also the hardest hit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 150 to 170 taxis plying in the route, besides 12 buses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Due to heavy rains, a stretch of NH-29 near the old KMC dumping site sank nearly two metres on July 4. This compelled authorities to divert vehicles from Dimapur to Kohima via Jotsoma bypass.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of Nagaland State Transport (NST), Dimapur station, informed Nagaland Post that 12 buses were plying between the two towns &#8211; seven from Dimapur and five from Kohima. The price of a ticket was Rs 100.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The high volume of passengers far outstripped the availability of buses that were plying along the route.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the NST said the only solution was to deploy additional buses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NST buses have different seating capacities &#8211; from maximum 40 to minimum 27 seats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are about 11 to 15 40-seat buses that not only provide services on Dimapur-Kohima route, but also to other district sub-stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters stranded due to shortage of transport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}