{"id":308655,"date":"2020-01-03T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308655"},"modified":"2020-01-03T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T07:30:01","slug":"delay-likely-for-tallah-bridge-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delay-likely-for-tallah-bridge-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay likely for Tallah bridge shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tallah bridge is unlikely to be shut down from Saturday night because police are yet to firm up a diversion plan for the thousands of cars that take the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Buses and trucks are barred from taking the 57-year-old bridge since September but cars are still plying on it. Once the bridge is shut down for demolition, the cars, too, will need an alternative route.<\/p>\n<p>Senior officers of Calcutta police are trying to find an alternative route that will not trigger huge snarls.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources said they were thinking of tweaking the traffic on the new lockgate flyover at Chitpore where only cars and small goods vehicles are allowed to ply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tallah bridge is unlikely to be shut down from Saturday night because police are yet to firm up a diversion plan for the thousands of cars that take the bridge. Buses and trucks are barred from taking the 57-year-old bridge since September but cars are still plying on it. Once the bridge is shut down for demolition, the cars, too, will need an alternative route. Senior officers of Calcutta police are trying to find an alternative route that will not trigger huge snarls. Police sources said they were thinking of tweaking the traffic on the new lockgate flyover at [&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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308655","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=308655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}