{"id":76321,"date":"2017-04-09T18:49:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T13:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=76321"},"modified":"2017-04-09T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T13:19:44","slug":"chennai-road-caves-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/chennai-road-caves-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai road caves in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A stretch of road in Chennai&#8217;s Anna Salai caved in on Sunday, trapping a city bus and a car. Passengers however managed to escape and there were no injuries, authorities said. Tamil Nadu Finance Minister D Jayakumar blamed the construction of an underground metro line for the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident took place around 2:30 pm, on a stretch where underground metro construction is going on. Giant cranes arrived in ninety minutes on spot to retrieve the trapped vehicles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traffic along the area was diverted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It appears to be due to the impact of the metro rail work. It&#8217;s a lesson for us. The stretch will be fixed and traffic restored by tomorrow evening,&#8221; Mr Jayakumar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Metro construction authorities said the soil appeared to have loosened due to underground drilling.<br \/>\nBoth the car and the bus were removed with tow trucks brought in by the fire department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stretch of road in Chennai&#8217;s Anna Salai caved in on Sunday, trapping a city bus and a car. Passengers however managed to escape and there were no injuries, authorities said. Tamil Nadu Finance Minister D Jayakumar blamed the construction of an underground metro line for the incident. The incident took place around 2:30 pm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[39306,12502,39308,39307,20318,1524,17883],"class_list":["post-76321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-d-jayakumar","tag-finance-minister","tag-fire-department","tag-metro-construction","tag-passengers","tag-tamil-nadu","tag-traffic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/roadcaves_EPS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}