The metamorphosis being witnessed in the Nallagandla-Serilingampally belt is now in the process of acquiring another major infrastructure project, a Road over Bridge (RoB) across the railway tracks.
Taken up by the Roads and Buildings (R&B) Department along with the railways, the project has been making fast progress and is expected to solve in a year the problems faced by scores of motorists every day at the railway crossing just ahead of the Serilingampally railway station.
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Coming up at a cost of around Rs.22 crore along with an additional expenditure of Rs.6 crore incurred towards necessary land acquisition, the RoB flies over the tracks at the connecting point of Serilingampally, BHEL and Patancheru on one side with stretches leading towards Nallagandla, Gachibowli and Madhapur on the other.
Three-year project
According to the R&B officials, the work on the three-year project commenced in February 2011 and a year later, most of it on the BHEL side has almost been completed.
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After flying over the railway tracks, the RoB forks with one ramp landing towards Navodaya School on Mumbai old highway and catering the traffic towards Madhapur and Mehdipatnam. The other ramp ends up on the stretch towards the new and emerging areas of Nallagandla, Tellapur, Gopanpally and further leads to the financial district and the IT centres of the Gachibowli.
The RoB when completed would be of a total length of 21 metres with 7.5 metres carriageway. “It has been planned with a total of 46 spans and the major work on the railway portion has been completed on Monday,” said the project manager, P.Venkata Swamy.
For the work on railway portion, which included setting up 12 girders, the railway authorities had provided access to carry it out in spells of around two hours each.
The progress of work was on schedule and most of it could be completed by the year-end and with last of the finishing touches taken care of, the RoB would be ready by February-March next year, officials said.