{"id":989500,"date":"2026-02-03T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989500"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:24:00","slug":"transport-bodies-urge-karnataka-govt-to-challenge-hc-order-on-bike-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/transport-bodies-urge-karnataka-govt-to-challenge-hc-order-on-bike-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport bodies urge Karnataka govt to challenge HC order on bike taxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Federation of Karnataka State Private Transport Associations has urged the State government to challenge the recent High Court order favouring bike taxi operations, citing serious concerns over public safety, legal interpretation and transport policy. <\/p>\n<p>Referring to accident data from the police department and medical opinions from doctors at the NIMHANS, the federation said two-wheelers account for the highest share of road accidents, with nearly 70\u201385% of total crashes involving motorcycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Federation of Karnataka State Private Transport Associations has urged the State government to challenge the recent High Court order favouring bike taxi operations, citing serious concerns over public safety, legal interpretation and transport policy. Referring to accident data from the police department and medical opinions from doctors at the NIMHANS, the federation said two-wheelers account for the highest share of road accidents, with nearly 70\u201385% of total crashes involving motorcycles.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989500","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=989500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}