{"id":392814,"date":"2021-01-01T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=392814"},"modified":"2021-01-01T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:32:54","slug":"open-drains-along-bypass-road-in-nolambur-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/open-drains-along-bypass-road-in-nolambur-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"Open drains along Bypass Road in Nolambur covered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has covered up open stormwater drains (SWD) near an accident-prone zone in Nolambur along the Chennai Bypass Road. A one-foot wall has been built on both sides of the drains and cement slabs have been placed above them along the 700 m stretch where a doctor and her daughter died last month after their two-wheeler skidded into an open drain.<\/p>\n<p>The accident attracted widespread criticism from various quarters. The Madras High Court took suo moto cognizance of this issue and directed NHAI to speed up the work. Accordingly, NHAI has now covered the drains near the accident spot and is devising a plan to cover drains (over 11 km) on both sides of the road connecting Nolambur and Maduravoyal, said a senior highway official, requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has covered up open stormwater drains (SWD) near an accident-prone zone in Nolambur along the Chennai Bypass Road. A one-foot wall has been built on both sides of the drains and cement slabs have been placed above them along the 700 m stretch where a doctor and her daughter died last month after their two-wheeler skidded into an open drain. The accident attracted widespread criticism from various quarters. The Madras High Court took suo moto cognizance of this issue and directed NHAI to speed up the work. Accordingly, NHAI has now covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392814","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}