{"id":454796,"date":"2021-12-08T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454796"},"modified":"2021-12-08T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:19:54","slug":"why-are-our-roads-so-bad-blame-it-on-bbmps-liberal-digging-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-are-our-roads-so-bad-blame-it-on-bbmps-liberal-digging-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are our roads so bad? Blame it on BBMP&#8217;s liberal digging approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most roads in the city have become unfit for travel: they are either untarred or filled with potholes and dust. <\/p>\n<p>While the recent incessant rains did have an impact on the roads, much of the damage has been caused by their reckless and repeated digging by various government agencies and\/or private telecom companies. <\/p>\n<p>And now we have data that shows just how bad the roads have become. Consider this: in the last two years, municipal authorities have given permission for digging a staggering 6,571 km of roads for the purpose of laying underground pipelines or cables. <\/p>\n<p>The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) accounts for the bulk of these road-digging expeditions: it received permission for laying underground water and drainage pipelines on 3,500 kilometres of roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most roads in the city have become unfit for travel: they are either untarred or filled with potholes and dust. While the recent incessant rains did have an impact on the roads, much of the damage has been caused by their reckless and repeated digging by various government agencies and\/or private telecom companies. And now we have data that shows just how bad the roads have become. Consider this: in the last two years, municipal authorities have given permission for digging a staggering 6,571 km of roads for the purpose of laying underground pipelines or cables. The Bangalore Water Supply [&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-454796","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\/454796","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=454796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}