{"id":642402,"date":"2024-04-24T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=642402"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:09:24","slug":"trouble-in-pragati-maidan-tunnel-continues-water-leakage-signs-found-despite-repairs-heres-why-the-tunnel-was-called-potential-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trouble-in-pragati-maidan-tunnel-continues-water-leakage-signs-found-despite-repairs-heres-why-the-tunnel-was-called-potential-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in Pragati Maidan Tunnel continues! Water leakage signs found despite repairs \u2013 Here\u2019s why the tunnel was called \u2018potential threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after the Public Works Department (PWD) officials claimed that the Pragati Maidan tunnel is now fit for traffic again, The Indian Express has reported that a spot check revealed that water leakage is still visible inside the 1.2-kilometre-long tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago the structure was marked as a \u201cpotential threat\u201d to the public. Repair work on the tunnel began on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel was constructed as a part of the Pragati Maidan corridor redevelopment project. However, it started seeing water leakage and seepage on its walls and roofs shortly after its inauguration in 2022.  Last year, the tunnel had to be shut down for more than a month due to waterlogging issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after the Public Works Department (PWD) officials claimed that the Pragati Maidan tunnel is now fit for traffic again, The Indian Express has reported that a spot check revealed that water leakage is still visible inside the 1.2-kilometre-long tunnel. Two months ago the structure was marked as a \u201cpotential threat\u201d to the public. Repair work on the tunnel began on March 20. The tunnel was constructed as a part of the Pragati Maidan corridor redevelopment project. However, it started seeing water leakage and seepage on its walls and roofs shortly after its inauguration in 2022. Last year, the tunnel [&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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642402","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=642402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}