{"id":590540,"date":"2023-07-12T11:07:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=590540"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T07:10:36","slug":"chennai-omr-foot-over-bridges-arent-for-pedestrians-but-for-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-omr-foot-over-bridges-arent-for-pedestrians-but-for-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: OMR foot over-bridges aren\u2019t for pedestrians, but for ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The seven foot over-bridges (FOBs) on OMR with advertisements might be raking in cash for the government, but have left pedestrians unhappy. <\/p>\n<p>Except for the FOB that connects Thiruvanmiyur MRTS to Ramanujam Tech Park , all the others are rusty and in need of maintenance. They don\u2019t have roofs, escalators or lifts. The light blue paint is peeling. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring peak summer, it is too hot to climb the bridge without a roof. The metal railings become too hot to hold under the sun,\u201d said Jeevanandam S, a pedestrian who uses the FOB in Indira Nagar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The seven foot over-bridges (FOBs) on OMR with advertisements might be raking in cash for the government, but have left pedestrians unhappy. Except for the FOB that connects Thiruvanmiyur MRTS to Ramanujam Tech Park , all the others are rusty and in need of maintenance. They don\u2019t have roofs, escalators or lifts. The light blue paint is peeling. \u201cDuring peak summer, it is too hot to climb the bridge without a roof. The metal railings become too hot to hold under the sun,\u201d said Jeevanandam S, a pedestrian who uses the FOB in Indira Nagar.<\/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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590540","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=590540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}