{"id":406666,"date":"2021-03-23T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T03:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406666"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:58:34","slug":"protests-intensify-as-tree-felling-for-old-airport-road-signal-free-corridor-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/protests-intensify-as-tree-felling-for-old-airport-road-signal-free-corridor-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests intensify as tree felling for Old Airport Road signal-free corridor continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public anger at the felling of decades-old trees on Old Airport Road intensified with citizens and green activists holding a demonstration at the Suranjan Das Road junction on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Holding aloft \u2018Save Tree\u2019 slogans, they collectively sought an immediate halt to the axing.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with the go-ahead from the Tree Experts Committee, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is on a drive to remove 23 trees at the junction. Ten trees, all fully grown and over 50 years old, were felled last weekend in an operation designed to make way for a subway at the \u2018T\u2019 Junction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public anger at the felling of decades-old trees on Old Airport Road intensified with citizens and green activists holding a demonstration at the Suranjan Das Road junction on Sunday morning. Holding aloft \u2018Save Tree\u2019 slogans, they collectively sought an immediate halt to the axing. Armed with the go-ahead from the Tree Experts Committee, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is on a drive to remove 23 trees at the junction. Ten trees, all fully grown and over 50 years old, were felled last weekend in an operation designed to make way for a subway at the \u2018T\u2019 Junction.<\/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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406666","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=406666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}