HYDERABAD (Metro Rail News): Hyderabad Airport Metro Ltd (HAML) has decided to take on several tasks in a parallel processing style to commence the Airport Metro Rail ground works early and quicken the pre-construction activities.
Two survey teams have been hired to collect the ground data for deciding the location of metro pillars and stations, their heights, the profile of the viaduct, etc.
On 18th December, HAML MD NVS Reddy and a team of senior engineers examined the Airport Metro route from Raidurg Metro station to Narsingi Junction to begin the survey work and give the survey teams instructions.
During the inspection, the engineers and survey teams were instructed to plan the corridor for the city’s distributed growth and station locations closer to significant road junctions. In addition, as requested by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, it should accommodate reverse commutes so that even lower-income groups can stay in superior housing on the city’s outskirts and travel to job locations within 20 minutes or less.
The possibility of linking the extended blue line’s new terminal station and the Airport Metro station is being investigated while expanding the current corridor 3 (blue line) from Raidurg station to the new Airport Metro Raidurg station by roughly 900 metres. However, these two additional stations can be placed above each other due to space restrictions in front of the L&T building and the Aurobindo building behind Ikea.
The teams were informed that the metro viaduct spanning over the Biodiversity junction flyover must be built and constructed in a particular manner to make a unique way to facilitate integration for the future BHEL-Lakdi ka pul Metro corridor station.
Mr Reddy said the location of Nanakramguda station should be planned with arms/skywalks to benefit passengers from all directions, and the one near Narsingi Junction should cater to the growth requirements of high-rise commercial and residential buildings coming up in Narsingi-Kokapet and nearby areas/colonies.
HAML Chief Electrical Engineer DVS Raju, Chief Project Manager B Anand Mohan, GMs M Vishnuvardhan Reddy, Rajendra Prasad Naik, and senior engineers participated in the inspection.