{"id":398827,"date":"2021-02-03T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398827"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:39:43","slug":"chennai-bengaluru-expressway-downgraded-due-to-traffic-alternative-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-bengaluru-expressway-downgraded-due-to-traffic-alternative-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai-Bengaluru expressway downgraded due to traffic, alternative road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The construction of South India\u2019s first greenfield expressway between Chennai and Bengaluru is set to commence within a few months. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) planned the project as an eight-lane expressway ever since the preliminary feasibility report was prepared in 2010. <\/p>\n<p>But just months ahead of inviting bids for road construction, the expressway was downgraded to a four-lane stretch. The NHAI attributed the decision to the existing alternative National Highway between the capitals of the two Southern States, and traffic volume. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The construction of South India\u2019s first greenfield expressway between Chennai and Bengaluru is set to commence within a few months. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) planned the project as an eight-lane expressway ever since the preliminary feasibility report was prepared in 2010. But just months ahead of inviting bids for road construction, the expressway was downgraded to a four-lane stretch. The NHAI attributed the decision to the existing alternative National Highway between the capitals of the two Southern States, and traffic volume.<\/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-398827","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\/398827","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=398827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}