{"id":475837,"date":"2022-03-15T11:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475837"},"modified":"2022-03-15T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:23:53","slug":"bascule-bridge-in-kidderpore-to-be-closed-for-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bascule-bridge-in-kidderpore-to-be-closed-for-2-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Bascule bridge in Kidderpore to be closed for 2 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bascule bridge, which connects Kidderpore and Garden Reach, will be closed for at least two months in the second half of 2022 for an overhaul of the 50-year-old structure.<\/p>\n<p>The Kolkata port, the custodian of the bridge, will float a global tender for the work, which will take about six months from the start. <\/p>\n<p>The bridge, which sits on top of a narrow creek that allows ships and barges from the Hooghly to enter the Kidderpore dock, will have to be closed for at least two months for the overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>The port authorities had hired American consultancy firm Modjeski &amp; Masters to find a permanent solution to the recurring problems bugging the bridge. Based on the suggestion received, the port will float the tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bascule bridge, which connects Kidderpore and Garden Reach, will be closed for at least two months in the second half of 2022 for an overhaul of the 50-year-old structure. The Kolkata port, the custodian of the bridge, will float a global tender for the work, which will take about six months from the start. The bridge, which sits on top of a narrow creek that allows ships and barges from the Hooghly to enter the Kidderpore dock, will have to be closed for at least two months for the overhaul. The port authorities had hired American consultancy firm Modjeski [&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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475837","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\/475837","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=475837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}