16-km road plan to ease Uppal traffic

Hyderabad: In order to ease traffic congestion at Uppal junction, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority has decided to lay a 16-kilometre road from Uppal Bhagat to Ghatkesar. 

The 150-metre wide road would facilitate diverting traffic via Gowrelli (Ghatkesar) towards the Outer Ring Road. Officials claimed that survey for a three-km stretch had been completed.

HMDA commissioner T. Chiranjeevulu said the road would de-congest traffic at Uppal junction. The radial road is being planned along the river Musi within the buffer zone of 100 metre; it will  be part of the River Musi Front Development.

The plan is to facilitate smooth flow of traffic on the Warangal-Hyderabad route. Uppal crossroads faces regular traffic snarls. Once the proposed radial road is developed, it would help divert traffic via Gowrelli towards the ORR, said a senior official from HMDA.

All vehicles coming from Warangal could reach LB Nagar via Korremula and Nagole bridge without passing through Uppal crossroads. The project would be executed utilising funds from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, he said. The HMDA commissioner said the authority would require 100 acres of land for the road and had pooled 200 acres. He said that the HMDA would pool 500 acres of land on either side of the road to develop the area to set up IT companies and satellite townships.