{"id":428862,"date":"2021-08-03T10:54:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428862"},"modified":"2021-08-03T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T07:52:21","slug":"ghatkopar-to-mankhurd-bridge-cuts-half-hour-ride-to-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ghatkopar-to-mankhurd-bridge-cuts-half-hour-ride-to-3-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghatkopar to Mankhurd bridge cuts half-hour ride to 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A grimy half-hour journey between Ghatkopar and Mankhurd has just been cut short to a little over three minutes. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray inaugurated a 2.9km flyover connecting Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Marg and Sion-Panvel highway. Work on the six-lane bridge was initially expected to be completed by January 2019, but got delayed due to a change in design so that a connector till the Deonar dumping ground could be added. <\/p>\n<p>All vehicles coming from Eastern Express Highway and Santacruz-Chembur Link Road can use the flyover, which is also expected to ease heavy vehicle traffic since the bridge is a crucial connector to highways leading towards the Konkan and Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A grimy half-hour journey between Ghatkopar and Mankhurd has just been cut short to a little over three minutes. On Sunday, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray inaugurated a 2.9km flyover connecting Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Marg and Sion-Panvel highway. Work on the six-lane bridge was initially expected to be completed by January 2019, but got delayed due to a change in design so that a connector till the Deonar dumping ground could be added. All vehicles coming from Eastern Express Highway and Santacruz-Chembur Link Road can use the flyover, which is also expected to ease heavy vehicle traffic since the bridge [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428862","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=428862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}