{"id":530743,"date":"2022-10-19T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=530743"},"modified":"2022-10-19T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T08:02:43","slug":"easy-to-blame-rain-but-check-work-quality-experts-to-bbmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/easy-to-blame-rain-but-check-work-quality-experts-to-bbmp\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy to blame rain, but check work quality: Experts to BBMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the BBMP has been blaming the rains and rough weather for potholes developing on the roads each monsoon, experts say shoddy execution and lack of monitoring are the real reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Black-top roads have a 10-year lifespan, while white-top roads can remain damage-free for 40 years. \u201cIf the BBMP focuses on maintaining higher work quality, such problems should not occur each year,\u201d traffic expert Professor M N Sreehari told DH. \u201cBut the work has been substandard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A BBMP contractor, who spoke to DH on condition of anonymity, admitted that corruption has forced them to produce substandard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the BBMP has been blaming the rains and rough weather for potholes developing on the roads each monsoon, experts say shoddy execution and lack of monitoring are the real reasons. Black-top roads have a 10-year lifespan, while white-top roads can remain damage-free for 40 years. \u201cIf the BBMP focuses on maintaining higher work quality, such problems should not occur each year,\u201d traffic expert Professor M N Sreehari told DH. \u201cBut the work has been substandard.\u201d A BBMP contractor, who spoke to DH on condition of anonymity, admitted that corruption has forced them to produce substandard work.<\/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-530743","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\/530743","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=530743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}