GHMC To Construct 10 FOBs In 100 Days

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to construct at least 10 Foot Over Bridges (FOBs) in the coming 100 days.

The decision was taken during the meeting convened by GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar with the officials of the traffic police department and the GHMC, and private consultants, on Saturday.

It was noted during the meeting that physically challenged and senior citizens, and women, were finding it difficult to cross the city roads due to the increasingly heavy traffic.

Of the nearly one crore population in the city, nearly 3% or about 5 lakh people are physically challenged. To facilitate easy road crossing for these people, at least 50 FOBs are being proposed by the GHMC.

In the first phase, it has been decided to provide FOBs at the Banjara Hills roads no. 1 and 12, the Jubilee Hills check post junction, the Lakdi-ka-Pul Ayodhya Hotel junction, the Gowliguda Imlibun bus bay, the Abids Big Bazaar junction, the Koti Womens College junction and at the Afzal Gunj bus stand.

The proposed FOBs will be erected with lifts and with the latest technology, with openings on both sides, and maintenance will be given to physically challenged persons.

The Commissioner also instructed the consultants to erect these FOBs and make them available for public use within three months.

The GHMC Commissioner also instructed to the officials of the GHMC, the HMWS&SB and the electricity department to study the feasibility of reopening the subways at Sultan Bazar and the RTC X roads that are not in use at present.

Addl. Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Jitender, Engineer-in-Chief Dhan Singh and other senior officials attended the meeting.

In another review meeting, the GHMC Commissioner discussed the proposal to construct express corridors in the city.

He informed that in the most density traffic areas, around 5 to 6 express corridors were being identified, and proposals were being sent to the State Government for approval.

The kind of systems to be adopted to enable free flow of traffic without signals will be discussed in the next meeting, and instructions were given to the consultants to give a technical survey report in this regard. (INN)