Four Lane Roads To Ease Traffic Woes In Hyderabad

In line with Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s vision to ease traffic congestion in the state capital, especially on city routes connecting districts in four directions, besides, reducing travel time, the Roads and Buildings Department has drawn up plans to widen existing roads into 4-lane roads. Accordingly, authorities have identified 16 radial roads, which primarily connect the outer ring road. The budget estimated for this ‘Radial Roads Project’ is nearly Rs 2,750 crores including land acquisition costs. 

Loan assistance from JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) will be sought to complete this project. Government is hoping JICA to give a major chunk of loan if not the total amount. R & B department has forwarded the proposal to Chief Minister’s office and the project will set rolling soon after the latter’s nod. Some of the routes, which are bound to get a major facelift as part of this project include Patny Junction to Thumukunta (17.75 km), Moosapet to BHEL Junction (11.4 km), Paradise Junction to Godrej Y Junction (2 km), Nagole bridge to Gourelly (15 km), Nagole bridge to Singaram (15 km), Secunderabad Cantonment to Old Alwal (11.6 km), Nizampet X Road to Kazipally (8.4 km), Midhani Junction to Adibatla (15.63 km) and Gopanpally to Kollur (7.14 km).

Actually, majority of these roads were under the jurisdiction of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). However, these were recently handed over to R & B department for effective maintenance. Government has already accorded administrative sanction of RS 304 crore for the first phase of the project. A Government Order (GO) was issued in this connection in recently.

It may be mentioned here that K Chandrashekar Rao held a review meeting in last November wherein he directed officials to transform city roads keeping in mind the traffic volume for the next forty years. He even announced thatg state government was willing to spend Rs 30,000 crore for this purpose. Besides improvement and widening of roads, the government is mulling to give complete makeover to roads in GHMC and HMDA limits with construction of skyways and express highways in the next two to three years.

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