Eight major roads in the Old City are slated to get a facelift with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) planning to develop them as model roads. While work on two roads – Charminar to Falaknuma and Nayapul to Chaderghat via Salar Jung Museum – will commence immediately, the rest will be taken up later, as per report published in Times on 27th Feb.
It further says that the two roads are being taken up for development in view of the conference of parties on Biodiversity and will be completed before July this year. As many as 23 roads were identified for development ahead of the conference that fall under GHMC, national highways and roads and buildings (R&B) department.
A month ago, GHMC had prioritized 65 major roads for a length of 170 km to develop model roads as part of Comprehensive Development of Road Network with the roads having common duct for telecom and internet cables, storm water drains, dividers, street lighting, pavements and other facilities.
The corporation even planned to take up 16 kms length of the road in the first phase with a cost of Rs 79 crore as part of Comprehensive Development of Road Network including the four km Charminar-Falaknuma road to developed as a model road. The road would be connected to Srisailam road and would also be useful for commuters going to the international airport. Apart from Charminar-Falaknuma road, other stretches including Indira Park to Vidyanagar crossroads, Srinagar colony road, RP Road and Minister Road were identified for development.
In the Old City, the roads identified were Putli Bowli to Charminar (4 km), Lal Darwaza to Uppuguda (3.17 km), Nanalnagar to Osman Sagar Road via Golconda ( 3.10 km), Nanalnagar to Golconda Fort (MD line) (1.60 km), Nayapul to Chaderghat via Salar Jung Museum (1.90 km), Golconda Fort to Tolichowki road via Tombs (3.50 km) and Tolichowki to Gandipet (2.78 km).
He said the 10 roads are part of 65 roads that were prioritized by the corporation earlier. But these roads would not have features like common duct and other features since it would take several months.
The 65 roads were selected after traffic survey and other systematic and scientific surveys were conducted by the consultant M/S Aarvee Associates. Of the prioritized roads, detailed project reports on the road conditions are being prepared by M/s Consulting Engineering Services (India) Pvt Ltd for about 170 km length of roads.
“The reports are being prepared based on the traffic and transportation studies which includes data collection and data analysis, traffic projection for the next 20 years and fixing the number of traffic lanes, land acquisition plan for junction improvement, design for street lighting, surface drainage system as existing and alternative profile for augmentation, design and selection of road signages, road furniture and road marking,” the engineer-in-chief said.
“The model roads will be taken up after the road works for Biodiversity conference are over,” the official said.