{"id":594188,"date":"2023-07-28T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T05:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=594188"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:38:20","slug":"in-past-7-months-121-deaths-in-398-accidents-on-bengaluru-mysuru-e-way-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-past-7-months-121-deaths-in-398-accidents-on-bengaluru-mysuru-e-way-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"In past 7 months, 121 deaths in 398 accidents on Bengaluru-Mysuru e-way: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In the past seven months 121 persons have died in 398 road crashes on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway, Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari told the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The 119-km expressway, which is billed as an answer to traffic jams between the two cities reducing the travel time to barely 75 minutes, was opened to traffic in January.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question, the minister said the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has constituted a Road Safety Committee for safety inspection of the access controlled highway and the committee visited the site during 17-20 July. \u201cFurther, the police department has taken initiative to enforce speed limits with interceptors,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In the past seven months 121 persons have died in 398 road crashes on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway, Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari told the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The 119-km expressway, which is billed as an answer to traffic jams between the two cities reducing the travel time to barely 75 minutes, was opened to traffic in January. In response to a question, the minister said the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has constituted a Road Safety Committee for safety inspection of the access controlled highway and the committee visited the site during 17-20 [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594188","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=594188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}