{"id":5805,"date":"2025-10-03T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:58:35","slug":"long-distance-bus-services-temporarily-suspended-in-morang-to-manage-dashain-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/?p=5805","title":{"rendered":"Long-Distance Bus Services Temporarily Suspended in Morang to Manage Dashain Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Morang \u2013 In an effort to manage the heavy passenger rush during the Dashain festival, the <strong>District Administration Office (DAO), Morang<\/strong> has announced the temporary suspension of long-distance bus services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issuing a public notice on Friday, the DAO stated that bus services will remain halted until challenges related to <strong>passenger crowd management, security, and ticketing issues<\/strong> are resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspension particularly affects buses departing from major bus parks in <strong>Biratnagar, Rangeli, Belbari, and Pathari-Shanishchare<\/strong>, which usually travel along the East-West Highway to various destinations across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The administration assured that <strong>passengers who have already purchased advance tickets<\/strong> for Dashain will be provided <strong>alternative arrangements<\/strong> in coordination with the transport entrepreneurs\u2019 association to minimize inconvenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said the decision was prompted by growing complaints of <strong>overcharging, overloading passengers beyond seat capacity, and black-marketing of tickets<\/strong> amid the festive rush. However, transport entrepreneurs in Morang expressed concern that the decision may further inconvenience travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DAO further stated that long-distance bus services will only resume after necessary preparations are completed to ensure <strong>passenger safety and smooth travel in the long term<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morang \u2013 In an effort to manage the heavy passenger rush during the Dashain festival, the District Administration Office (DAO), Morang has announced the temporary suspension of long-distance bus services. Issuing a public notice on Friday, the DAO stated that bus services will remain halted until challenges related to passenger crowd management, security, and ticketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-highlights"],"relative_dates":{"created":"6 months ago","modified":"6 months ago"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devalayanews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}