Hyderabad Metro Updates

[nirax]

Originally Posted by rajeev_14012008

Simple solution, public should boycott this old markets and everything will get solved in year. No need of any packages and any shopping complex.

that is very easy for me. i rarely go to sultan bazar for shopping anyway ... he he

since you raised this issue ... so from my side total boycott of sultan bazar from today

[nirax]

Originally Posted by Babji

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/9155605.cms


http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chann...mr-package-620



... no one gets every thing to their own personal liking
... why is not any one talking about the hardships faced by the commuters, traffic jams, environmental pollution, noise pollution and loss of productive time (man hours) in waiting on the road held up in traffic jams and the volume of petrol consumed and the number of road accidents and hurdles and health hazards faced by traffic cops etc
... These ppl must visit the stalls in multilevel shopping complexes provided to vendors by TTD at Tirumala and see how effective and convenient they are
... gone are the days when people from lower income groups "can not" use multi-floor shopping complexes for their shopping needs!
... most of these vendors started their businesses on a push cart - more like a 4*6 (24sft) - now they say 120sft is too small?
... who knows how many of them are real vendors and how many are owners of buildings/ shops?
... we have seen smilar resistance and noise when the ORR works were initiated
... lets hope GoAP and HMR wil prevail and go forward with the project!

they should give the proposed shopping complex to new traders and leave sultan bazar assholes in their hell hole.

[nirax]

Originally Posted by wasu

The road from uppal to lalapet is marked for pillars locations. See below.

The barricades are for more detailed soil testing at the exact pillars positions.

Some of the digging is much longer that what is needed for a pillar. Not sure what is going on here.

kuch to khoda inlogo ne ... kahi aisa na ho ki khoda pahad nikli chuhiya

[rajeev_14012008]

Originally Posted by Prodigist

Whats more important is that the property owners dont mind it at all.. Moreover they are supportive because they get market rates, extra FSI and they get a chance for redevelopment.. A BIGGG + for the propery owners.. Its the shop owners who have no locus standi legally because they are tenants that are creating a problem.

Well this is not in the case of Sultan Bazar, present width of road is 35-40 feet and there will be widening of 30 feet on either sides. So even property owners will not have anything left.

Also there is no scope / chance of further expansion on back side of properties, as market in this area is also developed in internal roads and by lanes. If you compare this with putli bowli - jam bagh - mozam zhai market road, people have started moving back after constructing new buildings as they had that option.

[Prodigist]

Originally Posted by rajeev_14012008

Well this is not in the case of Sultan Bazar, present width of road is 35-40 feet and there will be widening of 30 feet on either sides. So even property owners will not have anything left.

Also there is no scope / chance of further expansion on back side of properties, as market in this area is also developed in internal roads and by lanes. If you compare this with putli bowli - jam bagh - mozam zhai market road, people have started moving back after constructing new buildings as they had that option.

Then they should rather pedestrianize the road and use whatever is left for the metro and let the entire market lie in its ruins for eternity.

And the root cause for all this is HMRL setting a precedent by changing the route along the old city.. Religious structures of both religions would have been affected but so what? They could have been moved to another location.

Now ppl on the street will think that if u have the right political contacts you can do anything..

[Irrational_Indian]

Originally Posted by Prodigist

Then they should rather pedestrianize the road and use whatever is left for the metro and let the entire market lie in its ruins for eternity...

My suggestion too =D They do that, both parties khush

[wasu]

Raghu, yes, somebody will have to cover the stuff. The pictures I posted are from the uppal-habsiguda section.
I took video of the habsiguda-tarnaka section. Here it is.

[rajeev_14012008]

Originally Posted by Prodigist

root cause for all this is HMRL setting a precedent by changing the route along the old city...

Agree 100%, it is the root cause of issue.

[raghussc]

Excellent video wasu ! Looks like they have marked/barricaded more than a couple spots for the pillars.

Hope some one else will pick up from where you left

[Irrational_Indian]

http://www.aecom.com/News/AECOM+cons...o+Rail+project

The AECOM site says, The Metro Rail is expected to commence operation during 2016

2016? :O What happened to the 40 month target set up by HMRL?

[Babji]

Originally Posted by wasu

Raghu, yes, somebody will have to cover the stuff. The pictures I posted are from the uppal-habsiguda section.
I took video of the habsiguda-tarnaka section. Here it is.

wow! first video clip of HMR - thanks for sharing @ wasu

[Babji]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle2233874.ece

TRS disrupts meeting on Metro Rail

... A meeting convened to discuss the pros and cons of the Hyderabad Metro Rail project here on Saturday had to be abruptly stopped as Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) workers with the Sultan Bazar shopkeepers in tow stormed into the conference hall shouting ‘Jai Telangana' slogans.

They upturned chairs and tables, snatched the mike and questioned the temerity of the organisers in holding a meeting with a few persons on an ‘important issue' like the Metro Rail. “If you think you can destroy Hyderabad, we will not allow,” warned Kattala Srinivas Yadav, convener, TRS Greater Hyderabad.

Mr. Yadav accused Jana Chaitanya Vedika, which organised the discussion at Sundrayya Vignana Kendram, of being in cahoots with the L&T. He wanted to know why none of the Sultan Bazar shopkeepers were invited.

Offer refused: Mr. Yadav refused the offer of N.V.S. Reddy, Managing Director, HMR, to take part in the discussion. The TRS was not against the Metro Rail but wanted it to run underground like Delhi and Bangalore to protect the heritage monuments and the livelihood of lakhs of daily wage earners of Sultan Bazar.

The protesters kept shouting ‘Metro hatao, Hyderabad bacaho' and ensured that the meeting was wound up. Mr. Reddy tried to assuage their feelings and said he wouldn't mind explaining the importance of the project to TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

He further assured that new accommodation would be provided to the affected parties at Putlibowli. But all this had no effect.

‘Unpardonable' act: V. Lakshman Reddy, president, Jana Chaitanya Vedika, termed the disruption of meeting as an ‘unpardonable' act and said it went against the right to freedom of expression. Big projects like Metro Rail faced problems but they should be sorted out through discussion and not disruption.

Only solution: Arguing in favour of the Metro Rail, Mr. Lakshman Reddy said it would offer direct employment to 50,000 persons and provide transport facility to 15 lakh persons per day.

Earlier, with he help of slides, Mr. N.V.S. Reddy explained the urgent need for Metro Rail.

It was the only solution for Hyderabad as both MMTS and BRTS had limited capacity. With the pace of increase in psopulation and vehicular traffic, Hyderabad would become gridlock if no step was taken to go for an efficient mass based transport system, he said.

Thank God, there are still some sensible citizens like Mr. Lakshman Reddy are still alive in Hyd!
Go and lead, Mr. Lakshman Reddy - more sensible citizens will follow you!

[skdubai]

the irrational people usually get more attention! the rational people just get buried in the process...

[Cosmicbliss]

Originally Posted by Babji

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle2233874.ece


Thank God, there are still some sensible citizens like Mr. Lakshman Reddy are still alive in Hyd!
Go and lead, Mr. Lakshman Reddy - more sensible citizens will follow you!

Hyderabad Metro would have far ahead had the Maytas fiasco not happened. I just wonder, with a world-class ORR going on schedule, if Metro had been awarded to a good company, Hyderabad might have the best infra of all 'metros' (Bangalore+Hyderabad+Pune+Ahmedabad=new metros IMO). Of course, let's hope for the best.

[nirax]

today there was a report on DC that the last soil testing is going on. after that they will probably start construction in full swing.

sadly i am not able to open their epaper.

[rajeev_14012008]

Originally Posted by nirax

today there was a report on DC that the last soil testing is going on. after that they will probably start construction in full swing.

sadly i am not able to open their epaper.

Soil testing will take time..... i remember in the case of Green Lands Fly Over... Soil Testing was performed for 3-4 months.

And as per the today's news, if required they will go for another round of soil testing.

[rajeev_14012008]

Source

HYDERABAD: It is not just decades-old roads that are being widened for the metro rail project, a road developed in the late nineties will also be widened for the over Rs 12,000-crore project. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to widen the Madhapur main road (Kavuri Hills to Hi-Tec City) to 120 feet from the existing 80 feet. While revenue authorities had already issued land acquisition notification, the acquisition process is likely to begin soon.

GHMC officials said as many as 120 properties would get affected on the two-km stretch. While some properties are likely to get partially affected, some will be bulldozed completely for road expansion.

Widening of the road has been proposed by the corporation as the metro rail corridor III i.e., Nagole to Shilparamam passes through this road from Road No. 36, Kavuri Hills and Madhapur up to Shilparamam. For the metro rail route, the minimum road width required is 100 ft. The road up to Road No 36, Jubilee Hills has already been widened to 100 ft a few years ago and the Madhapur main road is just 80 ft now. The civic body needs another 20 ft for the metro rail, while another 20 ft for service roads.

The officials said when the master plan for the Cyberabad Development Area was prepared by the erstwhile Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (now Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority) in 2002, the road width proposed was 120 ft. However, it was not widened as there was no immediate requirement.

GHMC town planning officials said the road would be widened now to 120 ft wide due to requirement for the metro rail project, including service roads on either side. "As of now, the GHMC is concentrating on critical stretches like Musheerabad-Chikkadpally road and other important stretches. The Madhapur main road widening exercise will be taken up later though the land acquisition notification has been issued," GHMC additional commissioner (planning) K Dhananjaya Reddy told TOI.

The GHMC and Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited have identified nine kms of narrow road stretches for immediate road widening for smooth implementation of the metro rail project. The stretches include Sultan Bazaar, Jambagh road, Nalgonda Crossroads, Musheerabad road, Kachiguda Crossroads, Greenlands to Ameerpet, Sarathi Studios to Yousufguda checkpost, Yousufguda checkpost to Road No. 1, Jubilee Hills via Krishna Nagar and Road No. 5, Jubilee Hills.

The GHMC officials said as many as 1,262 properties would get affected, partly in most cases, for road widening on the three metro corridors. Of these, process for acquisition of around 600 properties is on. Recently, the state government has issued a GO to acquire 140 government vested municipal (GVM) properties on which private buildings like small houses, shops etc had come up. A committee was also appointed to fix land and structural compensation to the outstees.

[superfan]

Defence authorities are yet to give permission for conducting soil tests for the proposed metro rail project in the Secunderabad Cantonment limits. As a result, Hyderabad Metro Rail officials are doing rounds of Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) office for the necessary permission.

The Hyderabad Metro Rail has already completed first round of soil tests and also prepared designs on corridor-1 between Miyapur-L B Nagar (28.87 kms). However, on corridor-II between JBS-Falaknuma (14.78 kms), soil testing works are yet to start with defence authorities yet to grant right of way and traders in Sultan Bazar and Koti area demanding realingnment of the corridor.

The Metro Rail needs around 9,000 square metres on the central median between Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) and YMCA for corridor-II. The SCB had passed a resolution six months ago on the right of way proposal. The SCB also sent a letter to the Metro Rail authorities to enter into a lease agreement for allotting their land to the rail project. According to the lease agreement, the metro rail authorities have to pay Rs 1.5 crore per annum to the SCB.

"A copy of the Board resolution on allotting land and draft lease agreement was sent to the Southern Command, Defence Estates, Pune, for final approval six months ago," a senior SCB official told TOI.

The metro rail officials are doing rounds of the SCB office and enquiring about status of the allotment. "We will not allow Metro Rail authorities to take up soil testing in our jurisdiction till we get the green signal from the Southern Command," the official added.

When contacted, HMRL managing director NVS Reddy said, "We have no other option, but to wait till the defence authorities gave the green signal. However, corridor-II works are likely to get delayed by at least six months as Sultan Bazar and Koti shop-keepers are objecting over metro rail alingnment. The issue will be sorted out soon."

Meanwhile, the Defence Estates, AP Circle, has sent a proposal to the ministry of defence (MoD) seeking permission to allot 1.25 acre defence land to the Hyderabad Metro Rail.

Source

[rajeev_14012008]

Originally Posted by superfan

Defence authorities are yet to give permission for conducting soil tests for the proposed metro rail project in the Secunderabad Cantonment limits. As a result, Hyderabad Metro Rail officials are doing rounds of Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) office for the necessary permission.

Good joke.... detailed project reported was completed years back for routes.....
What is HMR doing..... are they only focusing on Sultan Bazar...... this approval could have been taking even in tender process.....

[skdubai]

when have our babus ever been proactive?

well atleast this part is encouraging...

The Hyderabad Metro Rail has already completed first round of soil tests and also prepared designs on corridor-1 between Miyapur-L B Nagar (28.87 kms)

Wonder whats going on with line 3?