{"id":455685,"date":"2021-12-13T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455685"},"modified":"2021-12-13T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:54:58","slug":"need-basic-facilities-not-4-lane-bridge-say-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/need-basic-facilities-not-4-lane-bridge-say-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Need basic facilities\u2026 not 4-lane bridge, say villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fearing urbanisation and destruction of mangroves, villagers of Gorai and nearby areas in Mumbai are protesting against a proposed bridge that would connect the area with Borivali.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge \u2013 slated to come up over Gorai creek \u2013 has been in the pipeline since 2005. It is estimated to reduce travel time between Gorai and Borivali by an hour. At present, one has to access the village via a ferry or by road from Mira Bhayander.<\/p>\n<p>The villagers have been opposing the project since the last two decades. One such attempt was opposed in 2008-09 when they petitioned then UPA president Sonia Gandhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fearing urbanisation and destruction of mangroves, villagers of Gorai and nearby areas in Mumbai are protesting against a proposed bridge that would connect the area with Borivali. The bridge \u2013 slated to come up over Gorai creek \u2013 has been in the pipeline since 2005. It is estimated to reduce travel time between Gorai and Borivali by an hour. At present, one has to access the village via a ferry or by road from Mira Bhayander. The villagers have been opposing the project since the last two decades. One such attempt was opposed in 2008-09 when they petitioned then UPA [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455685","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=455685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}