AP News Link Road From Begumpet To Fatehnagar To Ease Traffic
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For the harassed motorists of Hyderabad, any news about construction of brand new roads should be good news. And more so if it enables at least some of them to bypass the congested Punjagutta crossroads and the Ameerpet junction. Well so it will be, though it is meant to benefit traffic moving towards Sanathnagar and Kukatpally from Secunderabad. In the process motorists riding towards Banjara Hills, Jubilee Hills and Hi-Tech City will also benefit, though indirectly. “If the heavy traffic towards Kukatpally will not traverse the Punjagutta or Ameerpet stretch the congestion is bound to be relieved,” a traffic analyst said.The new road being talked about is an alternate stretch of two kilometres which will be developed from near the Begumpet road over bridge which will touch Balkampet and Fatehnagar. Work on the new road will begin from next month. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has awarded the Rs 22 crore contract last week. The deadline for completion of the link road is 15 months. “The contractor has already started soil testing and other preliminary investigations a couple of days ago. The road work will begin in the first week of August,’’ GHMC chief engineer R Dhan Singh said. This new road will be developed along the railway track. A bridge will also be constructed on a nala on the way to avoid land acquisition at Indira Gandhi Puram. Some portion of land from the Hyderabad Public School will be acquired for the new link road. A bridge will also be constructed beyond Nature Cure Hospital MMTS station and at the GHMC open land to connect the road to Suprabhathnagar near Balkampet. The road from Begumpet ROB to Balkampet will be four lane and from Balkampet to Fateh Nagar, it will be a two-lane road. While this two kilometre stretch of road is expected to be developed in the stipulated time, the GHMC is unable to carry out plans for another stretch of link road that would have eased the traffic problem to a greater extent. The corporation had originally planned for a 5-km link road from Raj Bhavan Road to Fateh Nagar via Necklace road MMTS station, railway track, Methodist Colony, Brahmanwadi, Begumpet, Nature Cure hospital MMTS station, Indira Gandhi Puram and Renukanagar and up to Balkampet. The link road was sanctioned under Mega City work costing about Rs 45 crore. When the corporation was about to call for tenders, residents of Methodist Colony and other colonies took objection for the land acquisition as it is in the buffer zone of the Hussainsagar. The Supreme Court would have to give clearance to the proposal. SOURCES: Times Of India             |