Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy remained bullish on the elevated corridor project despite protests by citizens and even claimed Friday that it was meant for public transport. <\/p>\n
During his interaction with DH, Kumaraswamy refuted the oft-cited concern that an elevated corridor network would only end up increasing the number of cars, defeating the project\u2019s objective of decongesting the city. \u201cThis will be for the public transport system. Not for cars. We’re doing this to expressly curb air pollution,\u201d Kumaraswamy said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSome four people are opposing the project. I\u2019m ready for an open discussion. I even met them recently and told them to wait till the Lok Sabha elections are over. What\u2019s important for me is to find a solution. There\u2019s no personal gain for me in building elevated corridors. The air in the city is so bad that it\u2019s leading to cardiac diseases,\u201d he said. \u201cUltimately, any project the government does should be of use to citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy remained bullish on the elevated corridor project despite protests by citizens and even claimed Friday that it was meant for public transport. During his interaction with DH, Kumaraswamy refuted the oft-cited concern that an elevated corridor network would only end up increasing the number of cars, defeating the project\u2019s objective of decongesting the city. \u201cThis will be for the public transport system. Not for cars. We’re doing this to expressly curb air pollution,\u201d Kumaraswamy said. \u201cSome four people are opposing the project. I\u2019m ready for an open discussion. I even met them recently and told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}