{"id":437347,"date":"2021-09-21T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437347"},"modified":"2021-09-21T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T08:10:00","slug":"chennai-500m-stretch-at-kelambakkam-turns-omr-traffic-bottleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-500m-stretch-at-kelambakkam-turns-omr-traffic-bottleneck\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: 500m stretch at Kelambakkam turns OMR traffic bottleneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Offices and educational institutions along OMR are resuming work and traffic snarls have begun paralysing Kelambakkam again. <\/p>\n<p>A stretch of OMR that is barely 500m long and passes through the busy Kelambakkam market area continues to be a bottleneck for road users as the six-lane IT Corridor (Rajiv Gandhi Expressway) narrows down at this junction, leading to vehicles getting piled up for long distances in both directions during peak hours. Now, as a temporary solution, the authorities plan to throw open a portion of an unfinished bypass at Padur on OMR soon to divert traffic. <\/p>\n<p>Two-wheelers encroaching upon the carriageway on either side of the road further shrink the motorable space, leading to traffic moving at a snail&#8217;s pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Offices and educational institutions along OMR are resuming work and traffic snarls have begun paralysing Kelambakkam again. A stretch of OMR that is barely 500m long and passes through the busy Kelambakkam market area continues to be a bottleneck for road users as the six-lane IT Corridor (Rajiv Gandhi Expressway) narrows down at this junction, leading to vehicles getting piled up for long distances in both directions during peak hours. Now, as a temporary solution, the authorities plan to throw open a portion of an unfinished bypass at Padur on OMR soon to divert traffic. Two-wheelers encroaching upon 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-437347","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\/437347","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=437347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}