HAML MD NVS Reddy inspects Medchal and Shamirpet Metro Rail corridors

To resolve some of the technical issues in alignment of the Metro Rail corridors to Medchal and Shamirpet, Hyderabad Airport Metro Ltd (HAML) Managing Director, NVS Reddy on Sunday inspected them along with senior engineers and the technical consultants

Hyderabad: To resolve some of the technical issues in alignment of the Metro Rail corridors to Medchal and Shamirpet, Hyderabad Airport Metro Ltd (HAML) Managing Director, NVS Reddy on Sunday inspected them along with senior engineers and the technical consultants.

Due to steep curvature of the road from Paradise to Bowenpally along the airport boundary and the insistence of Airport authorities, HMDA is taking its elevated corridor’s alignment below the runway of Begumpet airport (Tadbund/Bowenpally side) for about 600 mtrs through a tunnel.

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However, dropping the Metro corridor which will be at a good height at double elevation level over the planned HMDA elevated corridor down into a tunnel and again raising it to double elevated level after the end of the tunnel would pose engineering complications.

To resolve this, the Chief Minister, A.Revanth Reddy has asked HAML to examine the feasibility of combining Paradise-Medchal and JBS-Shamirpet Metro corridors initially and split it into two corridors thereafter, a press release said.

To find possible alignments, the team inspected different roads of Cantonment area including JBS-Secunderabad Club road, Staff road (Picket KV school road), Mudfort road, Tivoli junctionn road, Diamond point jn-Centre point jn-Hasmathpet jn-Bowenpally road, Tadbund-Anjaneya Swamy temple road.

It was found advantageous to combine both the Metro corridors in the beginning at JBS and avoid taking Metro alignment through a tunnel below the airport. Thereafter, metro pillars and viaduct can be constructed on the already widened service road median without disturbing the NH flyovers which are under construction.

This will also have the advantage of providing direct link for the Medchal corridor with the airport corridor, establishing an end to end 60km Metro corridor of Medchal-JBS-MGBS-Chandrayangutta-Airport link.

Regarding JBS-Shamirpet Metro alignment, it is feasible to straight away extend it from the existing first Metro pillar near Secunderabad Club as a double elevated structure over the proposed HMDA elevated corridor on Karimnagar Highway, NVS Reddy said in the press release.

Plans will be prepared to develop JBS as a mega Metro hub to cater to the commuting and other needs of residents of Secunderabad and northern parts of the city by pooling in about 30 acres of land belonging to the State Government and the Defence authorities in the vicinity.