{"id":600092,"date":"2023-08-28T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600092"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:30:17","slug":"highways-fells-374-trees-in-thiruninravur-for-road-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highways-fells-374-trees-in-thiruninravur-for-road-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Highways fells 374 trees in Thiruninravur for road work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The state highways axed 374 trees from Pakkam New Colony in Thiruninravur till Thamaraipakkam on Friday for the upcoming Chennai Peripheral Ring Road project. &#8220;The two-lane road will become a four-lane road, and its width will be expanded from 14 metres to 15 metres,&#8221; a highways official said. <\/p>\n<p>Locals were alarmed at the sight of trees of 50-60 years being cut. &#8220;I saw a couple of tamarind trees being axed. The road has large trees such as banyan and peepal. It is disheartening to see the trees we grew up with being cut,&#8221; said Pandiarajan P, a resident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The state highways axed 374 trees from Pakkam New Colony in Thiruninravur till Thamaraipakkam on Friday for the upcoming Chennai Peripheral Ring Road project. &#8220;The two-lane road will become a four-lane road, and its width will be expanded from 14 metres to 15 metres,&#8221; a highways official said. Locals were alarmed at the sight of trees of 50-60 years being cut. &#8220;I saw a couple of tamarind trees being axed. The road has large trees such as banyan and peepal. It is disheartening to see the trees we grew up with being cut,&#8221; said Pandiarajan P, a resident.<\/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-600092","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\/600092","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=600092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}