{"id":302931,"date":"2019-11-26T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302931"},"modified":"2019-11-26T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:22:20","slug":"3rd-skywalk-at-mysuru-road-a-waste-of-money-say-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/3rd-skywalk-at-mysuru-road-a-waste-of-money-say-locals\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd skywalk at Mysuru Road a waste of money, say locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBMP\u2019s obsession over building random skywalks seems to continue, with one more being planned near the Gali Anjaneya temple at Mysuru Road. <\/p>\n<p>Locals say the effort is a waste of the tax payer\u2019s money since this would be the third skywalk to come up at Mysuru Road within a one-kilometre distance. They instead want a pedestrian crossing and a signal. Pillars for the skywalk have been erected on a stormwater drain that overflows during the rainy season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPedestrian movement is rare in this area,\u201d Sharjil Ahmed, a trader in Bapujinagar, told DH. \u201cWe are not sure who is going to use this. While a residential area and some commercial units exist across the road, there is only a temple on this side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBMP\u2019s obsession over building random skywalks seems to continue, with one more being planned near the Gali Anjaneya temple at Mysuru Road. Locals say the effort is a waste of the tax payer\u2019s money since this would be the third skywalk to come up at Mysuru Road within a one-kilometre distance. They instead want a pedestrian crossing and a signal. Pillars for the skywalk have been erected on a stormwater drain that overflows during the rainy season. \u201cPedestrian movement is rare in this area,\u201d Sharjil Ahmed, a trader in Bapujinagar, told DH. \u201cWe are not sure who is going [&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-302931","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\/302931","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=302931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}