{"id":650223,"date":"2025-10-28T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650223"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:08:34","slug":"roads-in-chennai-turn-bottlenecks-as-expansion-projects-get-shelved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/roads-in-chennai-turn-bottlenecks-as-expansion-projects-get-shelved\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads in Chennai turn bottlenecks as expansion projects get shelved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The 10.3-km Madhavaram &#8211; Cholavaram NH stretch handles a daily traffic volume of 80,000 to 95,000 passenger cars, qualifying it for a 10-lane highway under Indian Roads Congress guidelines. However, owing to land acquisition issues and traders\u2019 opposition, it remains as a four-lane stretch, causing severe hardship to commuters for over a decade. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the 22-km stretch between Padi and Thiruninravur, where six-laning was dropped in 2012 due to traders\u2019 opposition, has become a major traffic bottleneck for vehicles heading to Tirupati and for freight movement to Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The 10.3-km Madhavaram &#8211; Cholavaram NH stretch handles a daily traffic volume of 80,000 to 95,000 passenger cars, qualifying it for a 10-lane highway under Indian Roads Congress guidelines. However, owing to land acquisition issues and traders\u2019 opposition, it remains as a four-lane stretch, causing severe hardship to commuters for over a decade. Similarly, the 22-km stretch between Padi and Thiruninravur, where six-laning was dropped in 2012 due to traders\u2019 opposition, has become a major traffic bottleneck for vehicles heading to Tirupati and for freight movement to Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.<\/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":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650223","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=650223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}