Hyderabad: GHMC officials conducted a joint inspection along with local military authorities on the alignment of an alternative road from Safilguda Railway Gate to Allahabad Gate, East Marredpally. The Army has set May 31 as the deadline to close the Gough Road.
Alternative road from Safilguda Railway Gate to Allahabad Gate, East Marredpally will be 50 foot wide
Elsewhere, the South Central Railway has decided to close the Safilguda Railway Gate upon completion of work at the Uttamnagar Colony road underbridge.
The officials surveyed the 2.86-km alternative road on the land belonging to defence.
GHMC commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy said the new road would bypass the AOC Swimming Pool.The LMA have insisted that the alternative road travel along the periphery of the AOC, with minimal utilisation of defence land.
The alignment will take the road through the hillocks adjacent to Mahendra Hills.
The LMA also wanted a road under bridge to be built at the railway gate at the AOC. Another road is being planned that would carry traffic from the Rama-krishnapuram flyover to Safilguda which will help ease pressure on Gough Road.
The local military authorities have allowed the survey of one road but did not permit GHMC officials to survey it. The GHMC intends to develop the 1.7-km alternative road for residents of areas between Ramakrishnapuram and Yapral.
