Thursday, 2 August 2012
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
City Metro Rail draws inspiration from Paris
L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd, the concessionaire of Hyderabad Metro, said it would commission the first phase of the project — Nagole to Mettuguda — in about three years. “We are supposed to complete the project in five years. But currently, we are thinking of commissioning it phase by phase. However, now our endeavour will be to complete the first phase, which we have taken up between Nagole and Mettuguda, in about three years,” Mr V.B. Gadgil, the chief executive and managing director of L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad), said on Tuesday.
The Nagole to Mettuguda stretch is a part of the Uppal to Shilparamam route. The other two routes are LB Nagar to Miyapur and Falaknuma to Jubilee Bus Depot. Mr Gadgil said that the project, which is one of the world’s largest PPP projects in the Metro Rail space, would draw inspiration from Hong Kong and Paris Metro Rail systems. “The coaches to be used in Hyderabad Metro would be better than the Delhi Metro,” he said. Dismissing the concerns that the speed of the Metro Rail would be limited as it was being implemented under the Tramways Act, Mr Gadgil said there were some provisions which allowed the government to implement the Metro Rail.
“The Metro Rail would have a maximum speed of 80 km an hour. But since it stops at all 65 stations, it would achieve an average speed of 38 to 40 km a hour,” he said. Though Mr Gadgil did not have much to offer on traffic problems due to the Metro work, he said L&T Metro’s traffic marshals would guide people on alternative routes.
Friday, 27 April 2012
Decks cleared for Ameerpet road widening
HYDERABAD: Decks have been cleared for widening of the Ameerpet-Sanatnagar road with owners of 37 shops agreeing to accept compensation at market rates for their properties. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has agreed to pay Rs 45,000 per square yard as compensation to land losers.
These shops had become a major bottleneck for road-widening works with only 30 feet to 40 feet carriageway available for traffic although the road itself is over 100 feet wide. Once these shops are removed, the road can be expanded to over 50 feet to ease the traffic flow and allow taking up of work on the metro rail's LB Nagar-Miyapur corridor I.
Plan to get 60 metro rail piers ready before monsoon
Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMR) and Larsen & Toubro Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd (L&TMRH) have decided to get at least 60 piers (pillars) ready on the Nagole-Mettuguda stretch before the monsoon sets in.
Foundation work for six piers is currently being done on the eight kilometre stretch labelled as stage one of the elevated metro rail project spanning 71.16 km across the three dense traffic corridors of the twin cities. Stage one forms part of the Line Three – Nagole to Shilparamam and it will have 305 piers.
Next month, piers foundation work for the second stage – Miyapur to S.R. Nagar, part of the Line One – Miyapur to L.B.Nagar, is to begin, according to HMR Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy on Thursday.
‘Bhoomi puja'
Principal Secretaries – B. Sambob (Municipal Administration & Urban Development), S.P. Singh (Roads & Buildings), Premchandra Reddy (Finance), GHMC Commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu, HMWSSB MD Adhar Sinha, APCPDCL MD Anantaramu, Cyberabad Police Commissioner Dwaraka Tirumala Rao, Additional CP (Traffic) C.V. Anand, L&TMRHL MD V.B. Gadgil and others, were present.
The operations and maintenance unit coming up at the depot will be the key nerve centre for all the metro rail activities across the three routes. Senior officials expect close to Rs. 1,000 crore to be invested in the depot alone.
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Advantages of Hyderabad Metro Rail
» The Metro Rail System has proved to be the most efficient in terms of energy consumption, space occupancy and numbers transported
» Hi-capacity carriers – very high volumes of peak hour peak direction trips
» Eco-friendly – causes no air pollution, much lesser sound pollution
» Low energy consumption – 20% per passenger km in comparison to raod-based systems
» Greater traffic capacity – carries as much traffic as 7 lanes of bus traffic or 24 lanes of car traffic (either way)
» Very low ground space occupation – 2 metres width only for elevated rail
» Faster – reduces journey time by 50% to 75%
Need of Hyderabad Metro Rail
We are in Greater Hyderabad now. A mega city that covers 625 sq. km. of municipal corporation area and 6852 sq. km. of metropolitan area. It is fast emerging as the hub of IT/ITES, Biotech, Pharma and Tourism sector. Its strategic geographical location, multilingual and cosmopolitan culture, tremendous growth potential and investment-friendly economic policy are all making it an attractive destination for corporates, entrepreneurs, academicians and homemakers alike.
» Its population stands at 8 milion and is projected to touch 13.64 million by 2021.
» Currently, over 2.8 million personalized vehicles ply on Hyderabad roads, with an addition of 0.20 million vehicles every year.
» 8 million motorized trips are made every day, of which, only about 3.36 million or 42% are made by the Public Transportation System (PTS) i.e., buses and local trains. That means the rest of the trips are made by personal vehicles leading to traffic bottlenecks, high pollution levels and a steep increase in fuel consumption.
» A people-friendly city is that which provides a good quality of life. An efficient, safe, reliable and comfortable public transportation system is one of the pre-requisites of good living.
» The increasing pressure of the burgeoning population is putting Hyderabad's Transportation System under constant pressure. The need of the hour is a robust system that is dependable, comfortable, affordable and sustainable.
» The answer lies in Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS). Accordingly, the development of Metro Rail was approved for 71.16 km., covering three high density traffic corridors of Hyderabad. The Project will be developed on BOT basis in PPP mode.
List of Hyderabad Metro Rail Stations
| Corridor | No.of Stations | Length (km) |
| Corridor I | 27 | 28.87 |
| Corridor II | 16 | 14.78 |
| Corridor III | 23 | 27.51 |
| Total | 66 | 71.16 |
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Hyderabad First metro rail pillar to be up next week
The first pillar (pier) of the elevated metro rail project for the twin cities will be up by next weekend near Kendriya Vidyalaya, Uppal.
L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail (L&THMR) has begun the base reinforcement for constructing the pier, one among the 305 piers to be built between Nagole and Mettuguda.
The eight kilometre section is part of the third metro line from Nagole to Shilparamam (27.51 km) and is scheduled to be the first stage to be completed. The elevated metro rail is being built across 71.16 km spread across three dense traffic corridors of the capital at a cost of Rs.14,182 crore.
The first pier will be eight metres high and 1.8 metres wide. Engineers of L&T and Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) have simulated the entire pier construction at the recently earmarked 60 acre girder yard, adjacent to the 104 acre Nagole depot, before the actual work began on the road median.
Seven stations will be built – Uppal, Survey of India, NGRI, Habsiguda, Tarnaka and Mettuguda, separated by distances ranging between 1.03 km and 1.60 km for stage one. Height of the stations will be from 47 ft to 53 ft. Stage two is between Miyapur and S.R. Nagar (11 km).
“There is enough road carriageway for barricading. Electric poles were shifted, so were major power lines of 11KV and 33 KV. Culverts were widened, open drains covered and work on an alternate road from Uppal ring road to Ramanthapur along the Hyderabad nala is on. The only pending work in the section is the water pipeline shift at a stretch between Habsiguda and Alugaddabhavi,” explained HMR Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy.
The new substation which will come up on five acres inside the depot and be given free to the Transmission Corporation of A.P. for construction of a substation will also better power supply in the area as it was being routed from Ghanpur now. APTransco has waived ‘centage' charges amount to 15 per cent of the cost of setting up the substation.
Mr. Reddy pointed out that farmers in the area had voluntarily come forward to give land for the project. For the land leased for the girder yard, an annual rent of more than Rs.1 lakh was being paid per acre to the land owners.
Meanwhile, the Centre has given its principle approval to fund the Rs.18.76 lakh study to improve pedestrian facilities and dedicated feeder bus services for the HMR.
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