{"id":47084,"date":"2018-09-29T02:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T20:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=47084"},"modified":"2018-09-29T02:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T20:33:57","slug":"trekker-drivers-protest-leaves-passengers-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/09\/29\/trekker-drivers-protest-leaves-passengers-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Trekker drivers\u2019 protest leaves passengers stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 28:<\/strong> Trekker taxi operators in the capital complex abruptly suspended their services on Friday to protest the detention of a fellow driver, leaving several passengers stranded.<br \/>\nMost of the commuters were forced to pay exorbitant fares to autorickshaws and Tempos to reach their destinations as the Trekker drivers refused to budge from their stand.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, a group of women passengers had lodged a complaint with the administration and police about the sudden hike in the taxi fare without any notification from the competent authority.<br \/>\nThe passengers claimed that they were verbally abused and forced out of a Trekker by its driver in Naharlagun on 24 September when they questioned him about the sudden fare hike.<br \/>\nThe Naharlagun police station OC later informed that the Trekker and its driver have been detained, and the complainants have sought a written apology from the driver.<br \/>\nThe Trekker drivers on their part have said they would continue their protest until the driver is released from detention.<br \/>\nAccording to information received from the OC, the complainants and taxi drivers were engaged in negotiations at the Naharlagun police station at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Sep 28: Trekker taxi operators in the capital complex abruptly suspended their services on Friday to protest the detention of a fellow driver, leaving several passengers stranded. Most of the commuters were forced to pay exorbitant fares to autorickshaws and Tempos to reach their destinations as the Trekker drivers refused to budge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}