{"id":443933,"date":"2021-10-21T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443933"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:46:15","slug":"new-town-roads-battered-by-waterlogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-town-roads-battered-by-waterlogging\/","title":{"rendered":"New Town roads battered by waterlogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip through New Town is now a bumpy affair as roads are dotted with craters. In some places large portions of roads have subsided, forcing the authorities to shut them down.<\/p>\n<p>All three action areas witnessed prolonged waterlogging last month. Several places in Action Areas II and III had remained flooded for at least a week after the heavy showers in September. <\/p>\n<p>New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) engineers blame the waterlogging on the poor condition of the roads. \u201cWater seeps through a flooded road and weakens the soil below, leading to cave-ins,\u201d an engineer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip through New Town is now a bumpy affair as roads are dotted with craters. In some places large portions of roads have subsided, forcing the authorities to shut them down. All three action areas witnessed prolonged waterlogging last month. Several places in Action Areas II and III had remained flooded for at least a week after the heavy showers in September. New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) engineers blame the waterlogging on the poor condition of the roads. \u201cWater seeps through a flooded road and weakens the soil below, leading to cave-ins,\u201d an engineer said.<\/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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443933","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=443933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}