{"id":295371,"date":"2019-10-07T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295371"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:15:34","slug":"bbmps-white-topping-rush-could-trigger-traffic-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bbmps-white-topping-rush-could-trigger-traffic-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"BBMP\u2019s white-topping rush could trigger traffic chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city could be thrown into further traffic chaos as the civic authority is preparing to white-top the roads yet to be worked on in phases 1 and 2. <\/p>\n<p>At a recent meeting, BBMP commissioner B H Anil Kumar asked officials of the Project Central Department \u2014 the nodal department for the white-topping project \u2014 to complete the remaining work in a year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the work order for white-topping of phases 1 and 2 have already been issued, we have been instructed to complete the remaining work in a year,\u201d N Ramesh, chief engineer at BBMP\u2019s Project Central, told DH. <\/p>\n<p>The civic body\u2019s records show that it was awarded white-topping works in 2017. It should have covered about 95 kilometres of different stretches of roads in phase 1, costing Rs 800 crore, while phase 2 should have covered 63 kilometres at a cost of Rs 690 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city could be thrown into further traffic chaos as the civic authority is preparing to white-top the roads yet to be worked on in phases 1 and 2. At a recent meeting, BBMP commissioner B H Anil Kumar asked officials of the Project Central Department \u2014 the nodal department for the white-topping project \u2014 to complete the remaining work in a year. \u201cSince the work order for white-topping of phases 1 and 2 have already been issued, we have been instructed to complete the remaining work in a year,\u201d N Ramesh, chief engineer at BBMP\u2019s Project Central, told DH. [&hellip;]<\/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-295371","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\/295371","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=295371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}