{"id":596783,"date":"2023-08-09T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596783"},"modified":"2023-08-09T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T05:52:30","slug":"most-roads-have-crossed-car-carrying-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/most-roads-have-crossed-car-carrying-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Most roads have crossed car-carrying capacity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Data for the study on vehicular density came from two sources: the vehicular count from the state transport department till December 31, 2021; car count across cities \u2014 and vehicular density calculation \u2014 from data sourced by Kolkata Police from the police of those cities.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Kolkata\u2019s 1,850km-long total road length is two-laned. Experts said the city needed six-lane roads to accommodate the current volume of vehicles. Kolkata currently has no six-lane road. A few stretches \u2014 E M Bypass, Red Road-Kidderpore Road and stretches of J L Nehru Road-SP Mukherjee Road \u2014 are four-lane. \u201cThus, most roads in the city have exceeded saturation level,\u201d said an officer of the Bengal Traffic-Transportation Planning Directorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Data for the study on vehicular density came from two sources: the vehicular count from the state transport department till December 31, 2021; car count across cities \u2014 and vehicular density calculation \u2014 from data sourced by Kolkata Police from the police of those cities. The majority of Kolkata\u2019s 1,850km-long total road length is two-laned. Experts said the city needed six-lane roads to accommodate the current volume of vehicles. Kolkata currently has no six-lane road. A few stretches \u2014 E M Bypass, Red Road-Kidderpore Road and stretches of J L Nehru Road-SP Mukherjee Road \u2014 are four-lane. \u201cThus, most [&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-596783","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\/596783","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=596783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}