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Wednesday, Aug 18, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

MCH moves to help pedestrians

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, AUG. 17. Fulfilling a long-pending demand from people, especially pedestrians, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad has decided to construct foot-overbridges in four busiest thoroughfares in the capital.

The bridges are to be constructed near St. George's Grammar School in Abids, Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet and Dilsukhnagar and Madina near Charminar, according to the MCH Commissioner, Chitra Ramachandran.

Coordination meet

This was decided at a coordination meeting of senior officers, including the Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Tejdeep Kaur-Menon, the Chief Engineer of Central Power Distribution Company, A. Srinivasa Rao, and the MCH Additional Commissioners - M.V. Satyanarayana (Planning), N.V.S. Reddy (Traffic & Transportation) and E. Sridhar (Works), held on Monday.

The Corporation also requested the traffic police to come out with a plan to take up computerisation of traffic signals that would facilitate proper synchronisation and ensure smoother flow of vehicular traffic on main roads. To begin with, the traffic police were asked to take up such work on two major corridors of the city -- BHEL to Hayathnagar and Secunderabad to Chandrayanagutta.

Parking for autos

There is also some cheer for the three-wheeler autorickshaw drivers with the civic body deciding to earmark space for their parking stands in vacant Government land that is to be identified. The CPDCL was also asked to speed up removing and relocation of electric poles on the roads that were already widened. The MCH has offered to bear the expenditure of such an exercise. The officials discussed ways to arrest the problem of water-logging on main roads.

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