{"id":438733,"date":"2021-09-28T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438733"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T06:20:04","slug":"6-5-km-z-morh-tunnel-is-set-for-early-completion-will-link-sonmarg-srinagar-all-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/6-5-km-z-morh-tunnel-is-set-for-early-completion-will-link-sonmarg-srinagar-all-year\/","title":{"rendered":"6.5-km Z-Morh Tunnel is set for early completion; will link Sonmarg, Srinagar all year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is all set to become the first person to travel in the all-weather escape tunnel of Z-Morh main tunnel, connecting Srinagar and Sonmarg. The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, on Tuesday, will visit the Z-Morh main tunnel project site for an inspection. The escape tunnel which is 6.5 km long is ready to be partially opened for controlled traffic around the month of November, giving Sonmarg connectivity to Srinagar, as also maintaining supplies through the winter season for the first time. At 8,960 feet, tourist destination Sonmarg is covered in snow during the winter season, forcing locals to shift to Srinagar side. During winter days, all commercial activity comes to a halt, besides connectivity on Srinagar-Leh highway gets blocked due to avalanches, according to an IE report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is all set to become the first person to travel in the all-weather escape tunnel of Z-Morh main tunnel, connecting Srinagar and Sonmarg. The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, on Tuesday, will visit the Z-Morh main tunnel project site for an inspection. The escape tunnel which is 6.5 km long is ready to be partially opened for controlled traffic around the month of November, giving Sonmarg connectivity to Srinagar, as also maintaining supplies through the winter season for the first time. At 8,960 feet, tourist destination Sonmarg is covered in snow during the winter [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438733","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=438733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}