Traffic around the historic Charminar will be diverted within '2 days' on the still-incomplete inner ring road to enable the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation lay concrete slabs under the Charminar Pedestrianisation Project (CPP).
The traffic diversion will take place as soon as the electricity and telephone poles in the middle of the road are shifted. The poles are a major hindrance to traffic flow. The APCPDCL has been told to expedite the shifting of the electricity poles, while the telephone poles will be shifted by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited within 2 days.
The decision for the temporary diversion of the traffic on the inner road came after a team of the City Coordination Committee inspected the ongoing works on the Charminar Pedestrianisation Project as part of the
100-days Action Plan.
The team, which consisted of GHMC Additional Commissioner and Coordinator K Dhananjaya Reddy, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) C V Anand, APCPDCL, APSRTC and HMWSSB officials, found out that the traffic flow was making work on the CPP very difficult to be carried out.
The team also instructed the APSRTC to ensure that the no bus make its way to the Charminar bus stop from April 1st. The buses will have to be parked at the Falaknuma bus stand where the government had already allotted land. Work on the Falaknuma bus stand is still going on, and the APSRTC has been told to make temporary arrangements till it is completed.
It may be mentioned here that the state government has already directed the GHMC to release Rs. 10 crore to the police department to upgrade traffic signals in the city, and mark zebra crossings as well as parking lanes.
Dhananjaya Reddy also told media persons that 2 new road-under-bridges would be constructed besides the existing Oliphant Bridge to ease traffic flow.
The GHMC will give 25% of the Rs. 26 crore needed for the construction of these road-under-bridges to the South Central Railways within this week. The rest of the money will be paid after the brides are built.
The GHMC will also build a 'nala' at Hafez Babanagar to divert the overflowing waters of the Balapur Lake. The corporation will also bear the expenditure incurred for shifting the existing Krishna water pipeline.
Courtesy: INN