{"id":911349,"date":"2025-03-05T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=911349"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:27:51","slug":"yatri-sathi-brings-back-yellow-taxis-but-does-bengal-govts-app-cab-service-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/05\/yatri-sathi-brings-back-yellow-taxis-but-does-bengal-govts-app-cab-service-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Yatri Sathi brings back yellow taxis. But does Bengal govt\u2019s app-cab service work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a cab Kolkata on weekday mornings can be a bit like the Indian share markets in the time of Donald Trump. On some days, there\u2019s a cab two minutes from your location, and on others it is like finding an oasis in the Sahara. <\/p>\n<p>While the city has a fleet of application-based cab services \u2014 like Uber, Ola and inDrive, the travel predicament is real. Not to forget the flat refusals from the good old \u2018No Refusal\u2019 taxis, or quoting exorbitant fares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a cab Kolkata on weekday mornings can be a bit like the Indian share markets in the time of Donald Trump. On some days, there\u2019s a cab two minutes from your location, and on others it is like finding an oasis in the Sahara. While the city has a fleet of application-based cab services \u2014 like Uber, Ola and inDrive, the travel predicament is real. Not to forget the flat refusals from the good old \u2018No Refusal\u2019 taxis, or quoting exorbitant fares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}