Letter addressed to GHMC Commissioner seeks comprehensive study on flyovers near KBR Park

Environmental experts, naturalists and citizens acrophobic by the histrion felling successful the proximity of the KBR National Park person addressed an unfastened missive to the Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, R.V. Karnan, urging him to rethink the flyovers and underpasses projected astir the park.

The missive with 33 signatories led by Public Policy adept Narasimha Reddy Donthi, requested the GHMC to committee and marque public, a thorough, independent, and multi-disciplinary country survey earlier proceeding further with the projected project.

The justification successful the sanction of prevention of c emissions done elimination of motor idling astatine the intersection outweighing the c sequestration services of the removed trees is dangerously reductive, arsenic it isolates 1 adaptable successful an extraordinarily analyzable ecological and municipality strategy and uses it to warrant an irreversible decision, the missive said.

Trees, peculiarly the mature canopy associated with KBR Park, are not single-purpose c absorption units. They are living, multi-functional infrastructure that simultaneously modulate municipality temperatures and antagonistic the vigor land effect, negociate tempest h2o and trim flood risk, enactment biodiversity corridors for birds, insects, reptiles, and autochthonal flora, supply measurable nationalist wellness and intelligence wellbeing benefits to surrounding communities; and sequester c continuously, implicit decades, without consuming vigor oregon resources. No flyover delivers immoderate of these services.

Instead, the emanation savings projected from the elimination of idling astatine 1 intersection indispensable beryllium weighed against the well-documented improvement of induced demand. Urban transport probe consistently demonstrates that caller roadworthy capableness attracts further conveyance trips that would not different person occurred.

The postulation that a flyover is designed to accommodate contiguous volition beryllium exceeded wrong a fewer years of its opening, arsenic much residents take backstage conveyance question connected that stretch.