{"id":442444,"date":"2021-10-13T11:18:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442444"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:36:38","slug":"chennai-may-soon-get-7-6km-long-sea-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-may-soon-get-7-6km-long-sea-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai may soon get 7.6km-long sea bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: To reduce traffic congestion in north Chennai caused by movement of containers to port, the state government on Tuesday urged the Centre to build a 7.6kmlong sea bridge connecting Gate No.1 (Zero Gate) of Chennai Port and Manali Road-Tiruvottiyur junction. According to sources, the state has asked the NHAI to prepare a feasibility report for the project which may have a suspension superstructure for unimpeded movement of fishing vessels to the Kasimedu harbour. Highways minister E V Velu submitted the request to Union minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>A source said, \u201cIn his meeting with the PM in June, chief minister M K Stalin had urged him to consider the project. The state has also been following it up with the Centre through letters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: To reduce traffic congestion in north Chennai caused by movement of containers to port, the state government on Tuesday urged the Centre to build a 7.6kmlong sea bridge connecting Gate No.1 (Zero Gate) of Chennai Port and Manali Road-Tiruvottiyur junction. According to sources, the state has asked the NHAI to prepare a feasibility report for the project which may have a suspension superstructure for unimpeded movement of fishing vessels to the Kasimedu harbour. Highways minister E V Velu submitted the request to Union minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Tuesday. A source said, \u201cIn his meeting with 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-442444","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\/442444","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=442444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}