{"id":939733,"date":"2025-06-19T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939733"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T04:33:30","slug":"bend-in-the-road-what-indian-laws-say-about-bike-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/19\/bend-in-the-road-what-indian-laws-say-about-bike-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bend in the road: What Indian laws say about bike taxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent crackdown on bike taxis across the state of Karnataka, and their last ditch-effort of ferrying people under the guise of &#8216;bike parcel&#8217; coming to a halt, commuters and employees are facing the brunt of the bike taxi ban. <\/p>\n<p>These two-wheelers had become part and parcel of a common man&#8217;s life as they were readily available and could &#8216;bypass&#8217; the long-hour traffic jams that a four-wheeler couldn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>However, on Sunday, the Karnataka High Court&#8217;s order of suspension of all bike taxi operators, including Rapido, Uber and Ola came into effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent crackdown on bike taxis across the state of Karnataka, and their last ditch-effort of ferrying people under the guise of &#8216;bike parcel&#8217; coming to a halt, commuters and employees are facing the brunt of the bike taxi ban. These two-wheelers had become part and parcel of a common man&#8217;s life as they were readily available and could &#8216;bypass&#8217; the long-hour traffic jams that a four-wheeler couldn&#8217;t. However, on Sunday, the Karnataka High Court&#8217;s order of suspension of all bike taxi operators, including Rapido, Uber and Ola came into effect.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939733","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=939733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}