The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is set to embark on the task of developing new roads on some identified stretches to reduce pressure on the existing roads in the city.
A majority of these roads have been planned in the Serilingampally and Kukatpally zones, which have become traffic nightmares following rapid development over the past couple of decades.
The civic body has identified seven new corridors — Narsingi to Ramachandrapuram; Infotech junction to Madhapur main road; Nacharam junction to Lalapet; Necklace Road to Begumpet; Begumpet airport to Tadbun; Banjara Hills to Kukatpally; and Madhapur to Kaitalapur.
On majority of these stretches, roads already exist to certain extent and the GHMC is planning to cover the remaining stretches to develop the routes as new corridors.
The roads envisaged to be laid add up to a total of 42.4 km, an official informed. The longest stretch among these would be between Narsingi and Tellapur, which would be part of the corridor to be developed between Shaikpet and Ramachandrapuram. “Two road stretches already exist between Shaikpet and Narsingi, and between Tellapur and Ramachandrapuarm respectively. All we have to do is to connect Narsingi with Tellapur so that a full-fledged corridor is available for road users,” said the official.
The distance between Narsingi and Ramachandrapuram is calculated to be 22.3 km, of which 7-8 km is available. Another important stretch is being planned between Begumpet MMTS railway station and Necklace Road, along the railway line. The two-kilometre corridor is to be laid in entirety, to ease the traffic on the Raj Bhavan-Somajiguda road.
The Infotech junction exists before Mindspace junction at Madhapur, from where another corridor of 1.1 km is being planned up to Madhapur main road. Of this, a 600-metre piece is missing, and would be laid anew, said the official.
Of the 1.3-km stretch between Nacharam junction to Lalapet, 800-metre road exists and 500 metre road is to be laid.
On the corridor between Road No.2, Banjara Hills up to IDL Lake Junction, Kukatpally, already road exists in bits and pieces, and the new stretch of 2.5 km is being planned between Borabanda and Kaitalapur. The total corridor is of 8.2 km length.
On the road of 3.3 km between Madhapur and Kaitalapur, only 200 metre bit is missing, which needs to be developed. Also, a road-over-bridge needs to be constructed across the railway track as part of the project.
Another proposal for a surface-cum-tunnel road of 2.5 km between Begumpet Airport and Tadbun would be taken up subject to clearance by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), officials informed.
More roads would be taken up as suggested by the comprehensive traffic study conducted by LEE Associates jointly with the traffic police, as short-term measures to address traffic issues. They include development of 109 km intermediate ring road between Outer and Inner Ring Roads, and radial roads of 128 km, for which the proposals are still on the drawing board, the officials said.
