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Six-lane flyover set to ease traffic woes in Begumpet

Staff Reporter

Carriageway increased without disturbing existing flyover

HYDERABAD: Greenlands flyover, under construction, will not only help traffic from Begumpet jump over an extremely busy junction, but it will also help add to the carriageway of the existing flyover over the railway line.

Once the flyover is complete by February-end next year, there will be six lanes crossing over the railway line at Begumpet with the new flyover merging into the old one of four lanes. This effectively gives three lanes each for traffic going towards and away from Begumpet. "We have decided to increase the carriageway crossing the railway line without disturbing the existing flyover after consulting bridge experts and going through scientific traffic studies," explains MCH Additional Commissioner (Traffic and Transportation) N.V.S. Reddy.

Talking to presspersons at the flyover girder construction yard, near Sanjeevaiah Park, on Saturday, Mr. Reddy pointed out that major work on flyovers at Punjagutta, Nalgonda and Chandrayangutta was being done away from flyover sites as they come under high-traffic zones.

43 spans

Greenlands flyover is being constructed at a cost of Rs. 13.36 crores by Ahmedabad-based JMC firm with L&T Ramboll as a technical consultant. With a length of slightly more than 1 km, it will have 45 piers and 43 spans over which pre-stressed concrete girders will be laid.

Three such girders of 22 metres (72 ft) will be laid side by side between two piers with gaps filled with concrete deck slabs forming the road (superstructure). Girder span at Greenlands junction will, however, be of 40-metre length (135 ft).

Girders being made at the yard while pier work is on at the flyover site will be up for erection from September, say project engineers — Ramesh of JMC and Jindal of L&T Ramboll. Girder erection will take 30 minutes and high-quality norms are being followed, they say.

After construction, traffic from Ameerpet will go under the new flyover onto the old flyover and join the new flyover near Country Club.

Executive Engineer, Special Projects Division, B.N. Rajeshwar was present.

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