{"id":383642,"date":"2020-11-11T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383642"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T07:12:01","slug":"nitin-gadkari-on-increasing-speed-limit-on-highways-india-needs-to-revise-its-speed-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nitin-gadkari-on-increasing-speed-limit-on-highways-india-needs-to-revise-its-speed-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitin Gadkari on increasing speed limit on highways: \u2018India needs to revise its speed norms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has criticised some of the surprisingly slow speed limits on multi-lane roads in the country. Gadkari believes that the speed limit on highways and expressways in India should be increased.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a road safety virtual conference Way to Vision Zero, which is a collaboration between the governments of Sweden and India, Gadkari said that it is unfortunate when vehicles plying on multi-lane roads are penalised for breaching speed limit of a mere 40 kmph.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Minister came out strongly in support of increasing speed limits, especially on multi-lane roads and sought state road administration to go easy on penalising vehicles for speeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has criticised some of the surprisingly slow speed limits on multi-lane roads in the country. Gadkari believes that the speed limit on highways and expressways in India should be increased. Speaking at a road safety virtual conference Way to Vision Zero, which is a collaboration between the governments of Sweden and India, Gadkari said that it is unfortunate when vehicles plying on multi-lane roads are penalised for breaching speed limit of a mere 40 kmph. The Union Minister came out strongly in support of increasing speed limits, especially on multi-lane roads [&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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383642","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=383642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}