Traffic to be diverted from Charminar to inner ring road
Hyderabad, Jan 19 (INN): Traffic around the historic Charminar will be diverted 'within two days', on the still-incomplete inner ring road to enable the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to lay concrete slabs under the Charminar Pedestrianisation Project (CPP).
The traffic diversion will take place as soon as the electricity and telephone poles in the middle of the road are shifted. The poles are a major hindrance to traffic flow. The APCPDCL has been told to expedite the shifting of the electricity police while the telephone pole will be shifted by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, 'within two days.'
The decision to temporary diversion of the traffic on the inner road came after a team of the City Coordination Committee inspected the ongoing works on the Charminar Pedestrianisation Project as part of the 100-days Action Plan.
The team, which consisted of GHMC Additional Commissioner and Coordinator K Dhananjaya Reddy, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) CV Anand, APCPDCL, APSRTC and HMWSSB officials, found out that the traffic flow was making work on the CPP very difficult to be carried out.
The team also instructed the APSRTC to ensure that the no buses make their way to the Charminar Bus Stop from April 1. The buses will have to be parked at the Falaknuma Bus Stand where the government has already allotted land. Work on the Falaknuma Bus stand is still going on and the APSRTC has been told to make temporary arrangements till this is complete.
It may be mentioned here that the state government has already directed the GHMC to release Rs 10 crore to the police department to upgrade traffic signals in the city and mark Zebra Crossings as well as marking lanes. Mr Dhananjaya Reddy also told media persons that two new road-under-bridges would be constructed besides the existing Oliphant Bridge to ease traffic flow.
The GHMC will give 25 per cent of the Rs 26 crore needed for the construction of these road-under-bridges to the South Central Railways within this week. The rest of the money would be paid after the brides are built. The GHMC will also build a nala at Hafez Babanagar to divert the overflowing waters of the Balapur Lake. The Corporation will also bear the expenditure to in incurred while shifting the existing water Krishna water pipeline.
News Posted: 19 January, 2011
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