{"id":528985,"date":"2022-10-12T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T05:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=528985"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:39:48","slug":"bmc-to-raze-69-year-old-patel-bridge-as-precautionary-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmc-to-raze-69-year-old-patel-bridge-as-precautionary-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC to raze 69-year-old Patel Bridge as precautionary measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to demolish the 69-year-old Ambalal Patel Road Over Bridge (ROB) in Marine Drive, commonly known as Patel Bridge, as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have carried out two structural audits \u2013 in 2019, and 2022. Both the audit reports revealed that the structure of this bridge is not fit enough to keep it operational, therefore, we have issued them a notice for pulling it down,\u201d said a senior BMC official.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge, which crosses over the Marine Drive and connects the western side of the Charni Road station with the Mafatlal Swimming Pool across the road on the far western side, was constructed in 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to demolish the 69-year-old Ambalal Patel Road Over Bridge (ROB) in Marine Drive, commonly known as Patel Bridge, as a precautionary measure. \u201cWe have carried out two structural audits \u2013 in 2019, and 2022. Both the audit reports revealed that the structure of this bridge is not fit enough to keep it operational, therefore, we have issued them a notice for pulling it down,\u201d said a senior BMC official. The bridge, which crosses over the Marine Drive and connects the western side of the Charni Road station with the Mafatlal Swimming Pool across [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528985","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=528985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}