{"id":451652,"date":"2021-11-24T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T05:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=451652"},"modified":"2021-11-24T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T07:31:08","slug":"bescom-rips-cycle-lane-footpath-built-by-smart-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bescom-rips-cycle-lane-footpath-built-by-smart-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Bescom rips cycle lane, footpath built by Smart City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cycle lane and footpath built under the Smart Cities Mission and opened to the public just a few weeks ago have been partially dug up by Bescom for repairs. <\/p>\n<p>On the 1.5-km stretch spanning Raj Bhavan Road and Race Course Road, Bengaluru Smart City Limited has built a cycle lane into the footpath, on its road-facing side. The cycle lane has been painted bright green and is punctuated with signage in bold white. The idea was to give cyclists a free run, literally, and insulate them from motorised traffic. <\/p>\n<p>Though fragmented, the cycle lane was praised by cyclists as a step towards sustainable mobility. But in just one stroke, Bescom dashed their hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cycle lane and footpath built under the Smart Cities Mission and opened to the public just a few weeks ago have been partially dug up by Bescom for repairs. On the 1.5-km stretch spanning Raj Bhavan Road and Race Course Road, Bengaluru Smart City Limited has built a cycle lane into the footpath, on its road-facing side. The cycle lane has been painted bright green and is punctuated with signage in bold white. The idea was to give cyclists a free run, literally, and insulate them from motorised traffic. Though fragmented, the cycle lane was praised by cyclists as [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451652","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=451652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}