{"id":526479,"date":"2022-10-01T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T05:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=526479"},"modified":"2022-10-01T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:54:14","slug":"benscl-close-to-finishing-smart-works-on-avenue-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/benscl-close-to-finishing-smart-works-on-avenue-road\/","title":{"rendered":"BenSCL close to finishing smart works on Avenue Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traders on Avenue Road are upbeat about good business this festival season after Bengaluru Smart City Limited (BenSCL) officials said they are certain about completing the civic work soon.<\/p>\n<p>While traders had been grappling with the pandemic\u2019s impact on their business for two years, BenSCL\u2019s roadwork that progressed at a snail\u2019s pace further aggravated things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hoped business would return to the pre-pandemic level after normal life in the city resumed,\u201d said Ramesh K, a bookshop owner on Avenue Road. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ongoing work left footpaths in a mess and people were hesitating to return. But we are hoping to do normal business this Dasara and Deepavali since most of the works are nearing completion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traders on Avenue Road are upbeat about good business this festival season after Bengaluru Smart City Limited (BenSCL) officials said they are certain about completing the civic work soon. While traders had been grappling with the pandemic\u2019s impact on their business for two years, BenSCL\u2019s roadwork that progressed at a snail\u2019s pace further aggravated things. \u201cWe hoped business would return to the pre-pandemic level after normal life in the city resumed,\u201d said Ramesh K, a bookshop owner on Avenue Road. \u201cThe ongoing work left footpaths in a mess and people were hesitating to return. But we are hoping to do [&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-526479","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\/526479","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=526479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}