New road underbridge near Rail Nilayam almost ready

By V. Geetanath

HYDERABAD, DEC. 21. The new road underbridge coming up near the Rail Nilayam has almost been completed and will be thrown open to traffic once the approach roads are laid.

Being built jointly by the South Central Railway and the Government at a cost of Rs. 4.99 crores, the underbridge should ease traffic congestion. The project was taken up as the adjoining old underbridge built way back in 1886 was unable to handle the increasing traffic on the stretch which links Tarnaka and beyond.

The new one was constructed using the `box pushing' technique without disturbing the movement of rail traffic on the five lines over the bridge. But, once the underbridge is open, it perhaps can ease hold-ups only to a certain extent, feel many regular road-users. There are two points where a large number of vehicles are either forced to halt for a while or move at a snail's pace.

One is the old underbridge near the Rail Nilayam and another underbridge just a few meters away leading to Mettuguda. While traffic will ease at the first point, the second stage remains as it is. "All the vehicles will surely come to a grinding halt when they reach the second point," points out a road-user.

This necessitates construction of another underbridge at the second point (road leading to Mettuguda) and also widen the road as the stretch is narrow till St. Anthony's church. However, for the traffic cops the new underbridge is one headache less as they can now concentrate near the second point where all the convergence and frayed tempers take place.

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