GHMC to add 55 more traffic signals in city

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is planning to provide more convenience to the citizens of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad for free flow of traffic by adding 55 more signals to the existing number of signals.

GHMC Commissioner and Special Officer Somesh Kumar, Special Commissioner Navin Mittal, Additional Commissioner (Traffic, Hyderabad) Jithender, Additional Commissioner (Cyberabad) Avinash Mohanty and officials of Bharat Electronics Ltd., along with GHMC senior officials held a review meeting on Tuesday on traffic issues.

In the GHMC jurisdiction, under BEL guidance, nearly 221 traffic signals are already been provided while some of the traffic signals have been removed temporarily due to Hyderabad Metro Rail works.The Traffic Police and GHMC are planning to provide 10 traffic signals in the needy identified places.

Somesh Kumar said that the GHMC will coordinate with the Superintendent of Police of Medak District to get the proposals for providing traffic signals in Patancheru and Ramchandrapuram. To know and have an idea of the working of the signaling system, the Commissioner desired that a command control room be set up at GHMC Head office.

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