FoBs, subways to mitigate pedestrian woes.

Ignored for long and forced to face hardships, pedestrians can soon look forward to more comfortable and secure road crossings with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) drawing up plans to set up 100 foot over bridges (FoBs) and subways across the city.

In the first phase, the civic body has set its sight on creating these facilities at 50 select locations and for the purpose, consultancy services for technical and financial studies have already been sought. 'We are looking at creating safe passage for pedestrians with modern FoBs and subways at suitable intervals which have been identified using inputs from different sources including traffic police, voluntary bodies and people's representatives,' GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar said.

Focus would also be on comforts of senior citizens, physically challenged and patients and the target is to have the project implementation for 50 facilities in next 100 days.


THE HINDU