{"id":478650,"date":"2022-03-25T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478650"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:11:10","slug":"white-topping-roads-costs-10-times-more-than-asphalting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/white-topping-roads-costs-10-times-more-than-asphalting\/","title":{"rendered":"White-topping roads costs 10 times more than asphalting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said there was a need to rethink of the white-topping of roads as it costs 10 times more than the regular asphalting. Replying to a question by Congress MLC S Ravi in the council on Thursday, the CM pointed out that a km of regular asphalting costs Rs 70 lakh to Rs 1 crore, while it costs Rs 9-10 crore for white-topping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI agree that the quality of the white-topped roads is better and durable, but we need to think at what cost we are doing it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said there was a need to rethink of the white-topping of roads as it costs 10 times more than the regular asphalting. Replying to a question by Congress MLC S Ravi in the council on Thursday, the CM pointed out that a km of regular asphalting costs Rs 70 lakh to Rs 1 crore, while it costs Rs 9-10 crore for white-topping. \u201cI agree that the quality of the white-topped roads is better and durable, but we need to think at what cost we are doing it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478650","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}