{"id":292156,"date":"2019-09-17T06:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292156"},"modified":"2019-09-17T06:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:57:26","slug":"potholes-choke-edappally-commuters-feel-the-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/potholes-choke-edappally-commuters-feel-the-pinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Potholes choke Edappally; Commuters feel the pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The bad state of the road leading to Edappally Toll is causing huge traffic bottlenecks, prompting the Traffic Police officials to close the divider at the junction.<br \/>\nAccording to the residents, the road\u2019s condition worsened as the monsoon started. \u201cThe pothole gets deeper day by day,\u201d says Abhilash Prabhakaran, who runs a car accessories shop at Toll junction. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe congestion was severe when the divider was open. Now, the vehicles from Edappally side have to take an U-turn at Koonamthai and those from Kalamassery side need to go till   Edappally junction, which is a major inconvenience. Despite this, the congestion worsens during peak hours,\u201d he added. The potholes are also causing accidents on the stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The bad state of the road leading to Edappally Toll is causing huge traffic bottlenecks, prompting the Traffic Police officials to close the divider at the junction. According to the residents, the road\u2019s condition worsened as the monsoon started. \u201cThe pothole gets deeper day by day,\u201d says Abhilash Prabhakaran, who runs a car accessories shop at Toll junction. \u201cThe congestion was severe when the divider was open. Now, the vehicles from Edappally side have to take an U-turn at Koonamthai and those from Kalamassery side need to go till Edappally junction, which is a major inconvenience. Despite this, the [&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-292156","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\/292156","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=292156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}