KCR proposes Skyways, flyovers in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Nov 15 (INN): Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao said that within the next two years the face of Hyderabad has to be changed through an integrated approach of developing the existing roads and constructing 5-6 integrated sky ways with multiple layers of flyovers all over the city.

For this the Chief Minister said that an amount of Rs 25,000-30,000 crores would be spent by the government phase wise. Interacting with John Farrow, Chairman, Dr. M Phani Raju, Managing Director and Dr T.S. Reddy, Senior consultant of LEA Associates South Asia, the consulting engineers and Planners, the Chief Minister said that for the development of Roads the three pronged approach should be improvement of roads which are critical and typical in Old city, New city development and finally the HMDA Area development.

Citing instances of severe traffic jams, KCR mentioned examples of Uppal to City while coming from Warangal, LB Nagar to City while coming from Vijayawada and then the Punjagutta ' Ameerpet Road.

He said, that because of PV Narasimha Rao Express High Way, reaching airport from the city, became an easy task. On the same lines in other parts of the city also people should not feel of traffic congestion. He said all roads leading to different districts from Hyderabad should be made free from traffic congestion.

The Chief Minister mentioned that Bangkok, which suffered the worst, constructed super highways which could be experimented here in Hyderabad also.

He also said that Rajiv Rahadari is a life line to North Telangana and it needs to be improved. He asked the representatives of LEA Associates to draw out special strategies to be adopted to ease out traffic congestion in city. He also told them to come out with a plan as to where elevated high ways could be constructed.

KCR said that surroundings of Hyderabad are added with additional population every year and as such their growing needs are to be analysed.

He also mentioned about the growing number of vehicles in the city and said that if all the available vehicles are parked in Hyderabad at a time, there will not be any space left for people to live, which is known as 'Grid Lock' phenomena. He also said that several national and international companies are coming forward to develop Hyderabad and invest for the same.

The Chief Minister asked the LEA consultants to first identify the high density corridors of Hyderabad and measure their length and come out with a plan. He also asked them to identify places where large number of people travel every day and prioritise them. He also asked them to work out on the draining of rain water.

Saying that nobody can stop the growth of Hyderabad City, the Chief Minister said that immediate focus for development of roads should be the GHMC area first and ultimately GHMC should complement into HMDA area.

Regulating timings for different activities to reduce traffic congestion also to be studied, said the CM. He has also preferred another airport in the Northern Part of Hyderabad to cater to North Telangana districts and almost 50 per cent percent of the Hyderabad population.

He said that people love to live in Hyderabad and several Officers and Judges, after retirement, have chosen Hyderabad as their residence. He quoted the example of former Chief Election Commissioner Lyngdoh.

The meeting was attended by Deputy Chief Minister T Rajaiah, Principal Secretary to CM S Narsing Rao, GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar and Special Secretary to CM Smita Sabarwal.