{"id":6615,"date":"2026-02-03T20:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:47:22","slug":"exclusively-for-the-elite-why-mumbais-new-motorway-is-a-symbol-of-the-divide-between-rich-and-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/03\/exclusively-for-the-elite-why-mumbais-new-motorway-is-a-symbol-of-the-divide-between-rich-and-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Exclusively for the elite\u2019: why Mumbai\u2019s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mumbai\u2019s new eight-lane coastal motorway has become a controversial symbol of the city&#8217;s extreme inequality, as critics argue it serves only the wealthy despite being built with taxpayer funds. While the road significantly reduces travel times for private car owners, an estimated 64% of residents continue to rely on a dangerously overcrowded public transport system where seven to ten people die daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 21, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/jan\/21\/exclusively-for-the-elite-why-mumbais-new-motorway-is-a-symbol-of-the-divide-between-rich-and-poor\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai\u2019s new eight-lane coastal motorway has become a controversial symbol of the city&#8217;s extreme inequality, as critics argue it serves only the wealthy despite being built with taxpayer funds. While the road significantly reduces travel times for private car owners, an estimated 64% of residents continue to rely on a dangerously overcrowded public transport system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}