L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMH) and Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) are working with other existing transport systems such as TSRTC, MMTS, autos, aggregate services like Uber, Ola and so on to ensure that Metro rail passengers have a seamless connectivity in their daily commuting.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to launch the Metro rail services in the last week of November, the Metro rail authorities have already initiated discussions with various parties so that all the public transport services can be brought onto a single ticket or a prepaid smart card.
Stating that it will be a “historic moment” for Hyderabad, L&TMRH Managing Director Shivanand Nimbargi said works were progressing as per schedule and in close coordination with the Government and HMR. He, along with HMR Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy, inspected the work site at Oliphenta Bridge and station works at Begumpet and Parade Grounds on Monday.
With the 1,100-ton mammoth steel bridge perched between two piers on either side of the Oliphenta Bridge, Metro rail engineers are now putting all their energy in speedy completion of other works like laying down the concrete plinth beam, hard headed rails, cabling, power transmission and the like.
Praising Metro rail engineers and other skilled workers for their meticulous workmanship behind the record-breaking feat of ‘fixing the bridge’ in just 10 days, senior officials pointed out that it took about six months to assemble the bridge after it was brought from Ghaziabad (Delhi), where it was fabricated, by the road.
The engineering feat was achieved despite road and railway traffic round the clock in the area, they said. The MDs reiterated that the deadlines set by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to keep the entire stretch of 30 km from Nagole to Ameerpet and Ameerpet to Miyapur ready in all respects in about two months would be met.
Minister for Municipal Administration K. T. Rama Rao was informed that both organisations had kept themselves an internal target of Oct.15 for completing remaining aspects like trial runs and safety certification from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) by Nov.15.
