{"id":650922,"date":"2025-11-01T08:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650922"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:58:49","slug":"chennai-motorists-pay-to-use-nh-stretch-but-get-bumpy-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-motorists-pay-to-use-nh-stretch-but-get-bumpy-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai motorists pay to use NH stretch, but get bumpy ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Despite being a tolled highway, the recent monsoon has turned commuting on the Poonamallee-Karaipettai (Kancheepuram) stretch of the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway into a nightmare for motorists, as it (stretch) is riddled with potholes every few hundred metres causing frequent bike-skidding. <\/p>\n<p>Commuters heading towards Vellore, Ambur, and Bengaluru said their travel woes have worsened following the rains, with bumper-to-bumper traffic for more than a kilometre near every bridge and flyover construction site. According to travellers, it takes nearly two hours to cover the 34 km from Karaipettai to Sriperumbudur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Despite being a tolled highway, the recent monsoon has turned commuting on the Poonamallee-Karaipettai (Kancheepuram) stretch of the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway into a nightmare for motorists, as it (stretch) is riddled with potholes every few hundred metres causing frequent bike-skidding. Commuters heading towards Vellore, Ambur, and Bengaluru said their travel woes have worsened following the rains, with bumper-to-bumper traffic for more than a kilometre near every bridge and flyover construction site. According to travellers, it takes nearly two hours to cover the 34 km from Karaipettai to Sriperumbudur.<\/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-650922","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\/650922","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=650922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}