{"id":309476,"date":"2020-01-08T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T06:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309476"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:02:40","slug":"concrete-plan-to-prevent-potholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/concrete-plan-to-prevent-potholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete plan to prevent potholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thin layer of concrete over a bituminous road can prevent potholes, a senior official of the state government said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The concrete layer, which can be five to eight inches in thickness, can extend the life of a road by over two decades, said Srikumar Bhattacharya, who heads the finance department\u2019s project clearance committee. The concrete layer will have to be laid on a road surface that is in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>Road engineers said white topping \u2014 the technical term for laying the concrete layer \u2014 was different from building a concrete road.<\/p>\n<p>Bhattacharya, a former engineer-in-chief of the PWD, said the EM Bypass was the perfect road for white topping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thin layer of concrete over a bituminous road can prevent potholes, a senior official of the state government said on Tuesday. The concrete layer, which can be five to eight inches in thickness, can extend the life of a road by over two decades, said Srikumar Bhattacharya, who heads the finance department\u2019s project clearance committee. The concrete layer will have to be laid on a road surface that is in good condition. Road engineers said white topping \u2014 the technical term for laying the concrete layer \u2014 was different from building a concrete road. Bhattacharya, a former engineer-in-chief of [&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-309476","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\/309476","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=309476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}