{"id":479134,"date":"2022-03-26T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T05:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=479134"},"modified":"2022-03-26T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:15:33","slug":"plan-infra-for-50-years-not-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/plan-infra-for-50-years-not-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan infra for 50 years, not five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complex in design, complicated in capacity, the city\u2019s Hebbal Flyover was never planned for the next 50 years. Majestic in looks, imposing in fa\u00e7ade, the K R Puram cable-stayed bridge did not foresee the impending, explosive traffic growth. Architects of the Jayadeva Flyover had no clue that one day, a Metro line will cross its path.<\/p>\n<p>These are just three of a long list of road infrastructure projects hurriedly planned without vision, executed in haste and destined for demolition or costly alteration. Massive amounts of taxpayers\u2019 money go down the drain, as long-term planning, sustainable design based on sound, well-researched traffic studies are bypassed in a blink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex in design, complicated in capacity, the city\u2019s Hebbal Flyover was never planned for the next 50 years. Majestic in looks, imposing in fa\u00e7ade, the K R Puram cable-stayed bridge did not foresee the impending, explosive traffic growth. Architects of the Jayadeva Flyover had no clue that one day, a Metro line will cross its path. These are just three of a long list of road infrastructure projects hurriedly planned without vision, executed in haste and destined for demolition or costly alteration. Massive amounts of taxpayers\u2019 money go down the drain, as long-term planning, sustainable design based on sound, well-researched [&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-479134","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\/479134","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=479134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}