{"id":563686,"date":"2023-03-20T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T04:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563686"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T05:41:49","slug":"days-after-inauguration-by-pm-modi-bengaluru-mysuru-expressway-flooded-by-light-summer-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/days-after-inauguration-by-pm-modi-bengaluru-mysuru-expressway-flooded-by-light-summer-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Days after inauguration by PM Modi, Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway flooded by light summer rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway during a visit to poll-bound Karnataka, commuters on Saturday reported waterlogging in pockets of the 118-km road, with many attributing the \u2018hasty\u2019 opening of the highway to its newfound woes.<\/p>\n<p>Built at a cost of Rs 8,480 crore, the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway was expected to reduce the travel time between the two cities from around 3 hours to 75 minutes. However, commuters couldn\u2019t reap this benefit on Saturday as overnight summer rains led to waterlogging in some areas, causing traffic snarls and delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway during a visit to poll-bound Karnataka, commuters on Saturday reported waterlogging in pockets of the 118-km road, with many attributing the \u2018hasty\u2019 opening of the highway to its newfound woes. Built at a cost of Rs 8,480 crore, the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway was expected to reduce the travel time between the two cities from around 3 hours to 75 minutes. However, commuters couldn\u2019t reap this benefit on Saturday as overnight summer rains led to waterlogging in some areas, causing traffic snarls and delays.<\/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-563686","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\/563686","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=563686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}