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The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has zeroed successful connected six junctions successful the metropolis wherever pedestrian facilities request to beryllium strengthened connected precedence basis.
Feasibility for either ft over-bridges oregon sky-walks is being explored astatine the locations, earlier the structures are taken up, officials informed. The locations see Afzalgunj junction, Lakdikapul Junction towards AC Guards, BHEL Junction, JNTU Junction, Madina Junction, and Miyapur T Junction.
On Wednesday, October 22, Hyderabad Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority has published a petition for proposals, inviting consultancy services for mentation of a elaborate task study for a pedestrian sky-walk astatine JNTU-Hyderabad junction.
JNTU is simply a premier determination and a dynamic hub of acquisition institutions, commercialized complexes and transit facilities, and it experiences precocious pedestrian and vehicular interaction, the RFP papers said. The determination witnesses consistently precocious footfall, particularly during highest hours, starring to predominant congestion and a concerning fig of pedestrian-related accidents.
The projected sky-walk aims to supply seamless, grade-separated connectivity, heighten commuter safety, trim pedestrian vehicular conflicts and beforehand a walkable, accessible municipality environment, the papers said.
JNTU is 1 among the 20 locations arrived astatine done a survey commissioned from Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad astir locations that are desperately successful request of pedestrian facilities. Preliminary study by the instauration identified these locations, from which the six junctions person been accorded highest priority.
HMDA had started operation of 2 sky-walks connected aviator ground respectively astatine Uppal and Mehdipatnam successful 2020, and launched the 1 astatine Uppal successful 2023. The sky-walk astatine Mehdipatnam has tally into problems owed to the contented with the acquisition of Defence lands, which, officials say, has been sorted retired paving mode for completion of the project.
Though determination had been a connection for 8 sky-walks astatine assorted junctions crossed the metropolis to beryllium taken up aft the aviator projects, it has been shelved aft alteration of regime.
