{"id":552928,"date":"2023-02-04T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552928"},"modified":"2023-02-04T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T07:55:15","slug":"milestone-for-whitefield-metro-as-open-web-girder-placed-above-railway-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/milestone-for-whitefield-metro-as-open-web-girder-placed-above-railway-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone for Whitefield metro as Open Web Girder placed above railway track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BMRCL&#8217;s plans to provide metro connectivity between Baiyappanahalli and Whitefield received a big boost on Friday with the placement of a 63.22-metre, 550-metric tonne steel Open Web Girder (OWG) across the railway line near Benniganahalli in eastern Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>A girder is a support beam used in bridge construction. An OWG is usually used for building elevated railway tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Namma Metro had to use the OWG because its 15.25-km Baiyappanahalli-Whitefield line passes above the Bengaluru-Salem railway track near Benniganahalli. It has constructed viaducts on the rest of the line and completed about 99% of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMRCL&#8217;s plans to provide metro connectivity between Baiyappanahalli and Whitefield received a big boost on Friday with the placement of a 63.22-metre, 550-metric tonne steel Open Web Girder (OWG) across the railway line near Benniganahalli in eastern Bengaluru. A girder is a support beam used in bridge construction. An OWG is usually used for building elevated railway tracks. Namma Metro had to use the OWG because its 15.25-km Baiyappanahalli-Whitefield line passes above the Bengaluru-Salem railway track near Benniganahalli. It has constructed viaducts on the rest of the line and completed about 99% of the 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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552928","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=552928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}