GHMC Identifies Five Express Corridors in City.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has identified five express corridors for seamless travel along the dense traffic stretches in the twin cities.

Senior officials of the GHMC and other consultants visited important stretches of roads where the movement of traffic is heavy and conflict at the junctions are common. They zeroed in on five crucial stretches that covers a total length of 123 km and proposes to make them as express corridors. There will be no traffic signals or other bottlenecks on these stretches.

GHMC officials told Express that the corporation will engage consultants for taking up feasibility studies and preparation of detailed project report for developing these express corridors.

GHMC will give sufficient time for the consultants to prepare Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) as the above stretches were passing through highly congested areas, where a detailed traffic studies, sub-soil investigation, details of utilities above ground, below the ground, Right of Way (ROW) availability etc, are to be carried out meticulously to finalise the DPR.

After submission of the DPRs by the consultant and approval from the state government, GHMC will invite tenders for developing these five stretches.

GHMC has also proposed to take the express corridors as per the instructions of the chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who asked GHMC to identify the high-density traffic areas in the city and take up the express corridors in the city at the earliest.

GHMC special officer Somesh Kumar said the high-density traffic areas identified by the corporation would be sent to the state government for final approval.

Stretches for Express Corridors

Corridor 1: Outer Ring Road (ORR) Junction near Medchal to ORR Shamshabad Junction via Kompally, Old Bowenpally, Basheerbagh, Mohzam Jahi Market, Afzalgunj, Puranapul, Zoo Park and Aram Ghar Junction (50 km).

Corridor-2: Shameerpet (Madiapalle) to Kondapur via Bolarum, Alwal, West of Marredpally, Punjagutta, Nagarjuna Circle to Jubilee Check Post (37 km).

Corridor-3: Nagarjuna Circle to Gachibowli, via Road.No 1, Banjara Hills, Masab Tank and Mehidipatnam (17-18 km).

Corridor-4: Nalgonda crossroad junction to Owaisi junction (4 km).

Corridor-5: LB Nagar to Aramghar junction via Chandrayangutta (15 km).


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