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Work apace on Punjagutta, Greenlands flyovers

Both structures to be thrown open to public on scheduled dates

PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

Hectic activity: Construction work in progress at the Greenlands flyover on Monday. —

HYDERABAD: The Punjagutta and Greenlands flyovers are well on course to be completed in March.

Having gone through some tough times, officials supervising the works say that structures are on their final stages of construction.

A single span is left on the stretch from Punjagutta till the bifurcation point at the Dr. M. Chenna Reddy statue of the main flyover starting just ahead of Hotel Grand Kakatiya. It will have two arms - one landing near the Jalagam Vengal Rao Park and another at Chutneys.

The second and shorter half of the flyover was opened a few months ago for traffic from Jubilee Hills towards Somajiguda jumping over Punjagutta junction. The main flyover will jump over the Rajiv Gandhi statue and Punjagutta crossroads.

Four spans remain to be taken up towards the park landing and two spans at Chutneys.

Work on the span landing towards Jubilee Hills had to encounter obstacles in the form of road-widening near the burial ground, overhead high tension wires and discovery of a key water pipeline underneath forcing all the officials concerned to rework their plans.

Pipes to be encased

“After discussing with the Water Board, we have decided to encase the entire pipe with concrete and shift it once the flyover work is over. We are discussing with the CPDCL if the HT wires need to be taken underground or increase the height. We have also managed to widen stretches near the burial grounds,” explained GHMC Additional Commissioner (Traffic & Transportation) N.V.S. Reddy.

All the segments that make the superstructure are ready for mounting on the spans, he said, quite confident that the flyover will be thrown open to traffic by March 15.

Much work is also going on the Greenlands flyover hidden by the metal canopy to traffic on the old Begumpet Road Over Bridge (ROB). While work on the railway tracks is set to begin anytime now, two more slabs are fast nearing completion.

Other piers have been raised and girders are in place. The road over the ‘nala’ leading towards the railway station and Brahmanwadi beneath has been widened to facilitate traffic movement. Once the flyover construction is over, some vents under the old ROB will be opened to allow ‘U’ turn.

Deadline

Mr. Reddy has set a March-end deadline for the flyover.

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