{"id":506451,"date":"2022-07-18T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=506451"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T06:15:52","slug":"despite-bbmps-efforts-citys-underpasses-drown-in-downpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-bbmps-efforts-citys-underpasses-drown-in-downpour\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite BBMP\u2019s efforts, city\u2019s underpasses drown in downpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viral images of two vehicles plunged in flooded underpasses have shoved civic authorities into action. <\/p>\n<p>In one of them, taken at the Doddanekundi underpass, a school bus was seen submerged in water, while in another photograph, a driver was seen standing on top of a submerged car and shouting for help at the Kodigehalli underpass.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the civic body\u2019s efforts to fix flood-prone underpasses, many remain waterlogged. <\/p>\n<p>A recent survey by the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) has revealed that the city has 54 flood-prone roads. Linking pictures and geotags of these locations, police shot off a letter to the BBMP with a request to carry out emergency repair works. The list includes at least a dozen underpasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viral images of two vehicles plunged in flooded underpasses have shoved civic authorities into action. In one of them, taken at the Doddanekundi underpass, a school bus was seen submerged in water, while in another photograph, a driver was seen standing on top of a submerged car and shouting for help at the Kodigehalli underpass. Despite the civic body\u2019s efforts to fix flood-prone underpasses, many remain waterlogged. A recent survey by the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) has revealed that the city has 54 flood-prone roads. Linking pictures and geotags of these locations, police shot off a letter to the BBMP [&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-506451","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\/506451","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=506451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}