Recently KT Rama Rao {Telangana Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) Minister} inaugurated Hyderabad’s Mind Space underpass which will provide major relief for several thousand techies who work in the area.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation said that the Mind Space underpass is the second project under the signal free traffic corridors, as part of the Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP).
The underpass is built at an approximate cost of Rs 25.78 crore, the underpass is expected to smoothen the heavy traffic in the area as a good number of people travel through the road while commuting to and from their workplace.
An analysis conducted by the municipal body stated that around 14,400 vehicles passed the stretch every hour and the number of vehicles was expected to shoot up to 31,356 every hour by the year 2035.
The six-lane underpass is 365 meters long, while the closed box length is 83 meters. The total width of the underpass is 28.80 meters while it has a minimum vertical clearance of 5.5 meters.
GHMC in a press release said that “Apart from Mindspace Junction, three other multi-level separators are at Biodiversity Junction, Ayyappa Society and Rajiv Gandhi statue junction with all the components costing Rs 379 crore. Apart from this facility, the underpass at Chintalkunta Checkpost too has been finished and is ready to be open to the public.
GHMC officials said that they will focus on completing the flyover at Rajiv Gandhi statue junction in Kukatpally. Smoothing vehicles movement from Malaysian Township to JNTU second gate, the flyover will benefit in addressing the traffic griefs in the locality.
Next on the radar will be the two flyovers at Biodiversity junction. Like Punjagutta junction, two unidirectional flyovers are being constructed at the junction, which is the main locality connecting the IT and ITES companies, besides for reaching the Outer Ring Road.
The infrastructural developments are coming up after taking into consideration not just to ease the traffic congestion but also to put in place a long-term road infrastructure in this part of the city, which has given a new distinctiveness to Hyderabad.
The city remains to lead the chart among the best livable cities of the country and SRDP works will go a long way in adding new infrastructure and meeting the future requirements, said a GHMC senior official.
Though commuters will have to tolerate a little inconvenience during the construction stage, there will be an outstanding change in the traffic flow in these areas once all the structures are completed, he further added.