{"id":286232,"date":"2019-08-06T06:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286232"},"modified":"2019-08-06T06:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:42:47","slug":"chennaiites-to-get-limited-access-to-elevated-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennaiites-to-get-limited-access-to-elevated-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennaiites to get limited access to elevated corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Chennaiites could have restricted access to the `3,500-crore six-lane project from Maduravoyal to Chennai Port as officials fear granting access to local transport would reduce the life span of the elevated corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling on the 20.3-km elevated corridor from Maduravoyal to Chennai Port which was initially supposed to decongest container traffic on busy roads such as Anna Salai and Poonamallee Highway could be a costly affair for motorists as they have to pay a high-value toll fee to access the elevated highway.<br \/>\nThis comes as the officials fear granting access to local traffic would result in the corridor reaching saturation level in the next 10 to 12 years. A top official of the National Highway Authority of India told Express that the NHAI was against granting access to local vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Chennaiites could have restricted access to the `3,500-crore six-lane project from Maduravoyal to Chennai Port as officials fear granting access to local transport would reduce the life span of the elevated corridor. Travelling on the 20.3-km elevated corridor from Maduravoyal to Chennai Port which was initially supposed to decongest container traffic on busy roads such as Anna Salai and Poonamallee Highway could be a costly affair for motorists as they have to pay a high-value toll fee to access the elevated highway. This comes as the officials fear granting access to local traffic would result in the corridor reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286232","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}