Hyderabad traffic gets a large dose of hope
Railway to build overbridges to ease traffic flow.
Hyderabad: The IT corridor, which has just one road overbridge to reach Hitec City from Kukatpally, will get one more soon.
The existing RoB is choked with vehicles during peak hours. Traffic police puts up temporary dividers to increase or decrease the number of lanes depending on the flow of traffic, but this has not helped much to ease the heavy traffic jams between 9 am and 11am and 8 pm and 11 pm.
Kukatpally ACP, traffic, Pagadala Ashok Kumar had written several letters to the GHMC to consider the seven-year-old proposal to build RoBs and RuBs in the IT corridor. He attached an analysis of the accidents that had occurred on the roads, which showed the increase in the fatality rate.
The Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy government had proposed building more RoBs in the IT corridor as the JNTU-Hitec City RoB was facing heavier traffic day by day even then, in 2009. Due to financial problems, successor governments put it on the back-burner.
The GHMC moved the file regarding the RoBs recently and wrote to the railway authorities seeking their approval. As per the proposal, a new RoB is necessary from Khaitalapur to Ayya-ppa Society in Madhapur.
The railways agreed to take up the RoB work at an estimated cost of Rs 13.5 crore and asked the civic body for an initial payment of about Rs 27 lakh to begin the work.
GHMC chief engineer K Suresh Kumar told this newspaper that the file was pending with the government. "Once the government approves it, we shall begin the work," he said.
The railways agreed to construct two RuBs at Kukatpally graveyard and at Indu Projects.
Underpass to beat deadline
Work on the Strategic Road Development Project in the IT corridor is underway at three key locations and the traffic police are diverting general traffic to alternative routes.
Work at Raheja Mindspace junction, including one underpass and a skyway, is expected to be completed in one year, though the actual deadline is two years.
Work at Ayyappa Society 100-feet road is currently on. One underpass is being constructed here, while another underpass and a skyway is being constructed at Biodiversity Park.