{"id":436877,"date":"2021-09-18T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T05:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436877"},"modified":"2021-09-18T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T07:52:56","slug":"kolkata-metal-plates-breach-road-surface-2003-victims-kin-relive-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-metal-plates-breach-road-surface-2003-victims-kin-relive-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: Metal plates breach road surface, 2003 victim\u2019s kin relive horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Heavy-duty metal strips laid in the road to protect optic fibre cable (OFC) by a telecom firm a decade and a half ago have begun jutting out at multiple places along Ballygunge Circular Road, posing a threat to pedestrians and motorists. <\/p>\n<p>One such raised metal strip had pierced the bottom of a car and impaled a young motorist to death at the Albert Road-Camac Street intersection 15 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>While micro-tunneling is now done to lay OFCs several feet below the surface, grooves a few inches deep were cut in the road surface to lay the OFC in the early 2000, which was then covered by a metal strip to prevent damage during repair of underground utilities and road restoration work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Heavy-duty metal strips laid in the road to protect optic fibre cable (OFC) by a telecom firm a decade and a half ago have begun jutting out at multiple places along Ballygunge Circular Road, posing a threat to pedestrians and motorists. One such raised metal strip had pierced the bottom of a car and impaled a young motorist to death at the Albert Road-Camac Street intersection 15 years ago. While micro-tunneling is now done to lay OFCs several feet below the surface, grooves a few inches deep were cut in the road surface to lay the OFC in the [&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-436877","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\/436877","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=436877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}