{"id":654900,"date":"2025-12-03T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654900"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:56:13","slug":"work-begins-on-kodaikanal-hill-road-expansion-after-year-long-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/work-begins-on-kodaikanal-hill-road-expansion-after-year-long-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on Kodaikanal hill road expansion after year-long delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DINDIGUL: A long-pending road-widening project on the crucial one-kilometre stretch between Observatory (Semmanmedu) and Rose Garden in Kodaikanal has finally inched forward, with work beginning only a few days ago despite the work order being issued in October 2024. <\/p>\n<p>The Rs 2.80-crore project, taken up by the State Highways Department, aims to expand the narrow hill-road to a uniform 10 metres to ease constant traffic congestion along one of Kodaikanal\u2019s busiest routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DINDIGUL: A long-pending road-widening project on the crucial one-kilometre stretch between Observatory (Semmanmedu) and Rose Garden in Kodaikanal has finally inched forward, with work beginning only a few days ago despite the work order being issued in October 2024. The Rs 2.80-crore project, taken up by the State Highways Department, aims to expand the narrow hill-road to a uniform 10 metres to ease constant traffic congestion along one of Kodaikanal\u2019s busiest routes.<\/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-654900","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\/654900","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=654900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}