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Old City to get better transport: Hans Impact
The State Government has decided to introduce minibuses and air-conditioned buses on certain routes in Old City. This was announced by Minister for Transport P Mahender Reddy at a meeting he had with city MLAs on Tuesday. The minister also said that the RTA office in Bandlaguda would be named after Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, the founder president of AIMIM.
Hyderabad: The State Government has decided to introduce minibuses and air-conditioned buses on certain routes in Old City. This was announced by Minister for Transport P Mahender Reddy at a meeting he had with city MLAs on Tuesday. The minister also said that the RTA office in Bandlaguda would be named after Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, the founder president of AIMIM.
The Minister informed that RTC was operating 42,650 trips every day using 3,519 buses on 826 routes serving 33 lakh passengers in the Greater Hyderabad Zone. The Corporation was running 390 special buses for government employees and women in the city, he said.
Charminar MLA Ahmad Pasha Quadri demanded the minister to run minibuses. He wanted the minister to take up road widening works and construction of bus shelters in Old City. Bahadurpura MLA Moazzam Khan wanted the minister to have bus route boards in Urdu.
They demanded that minibuses, including a/c buses be introduced in Bahadurpura and Fatimanagar and other areas. Yakutpura MLA Mumtaz Khan wanted bus linkages to Dabeerpura, Bhavani Nagar, Bada Bazar, Rein Bazar, Chandrayangutta and Moghalpura. Malakpet MLA raised the issue of traffic jams at Chaderghat and wanted the government to construct another bridge to ease the traffic.
BJP floor leader G Kishan Reddy said that there were no bus shelters at many places and where they existed, there was no flooring or provision of chairs which was causing problems for women and senior citizens.
Musheerabad MLA K Laxman wanted the minister to install the CCTV cameras at bus stops and bus shelters. Uppal MLA N V S S Prabhakar asked the minister to see that zebra crossings are marked for the benefit of pedestrians. He demanded that the Uppal bus station be expanded and more buses from Uppal to Secunderabad and Kushaiguda were introduced.
While, Excise Minister T Padma Rao wanted buses to all areas from Secunderabad, the Home Minister wanted the damaged roads at Koti be repaired since it was causing hardships to road-users along this stretch.
Mahender Reddy said city bus shelters were being handled by the GHMC since 2008. The minister assured the members that the bus boards and display boards at the bus shelters would have information in English, Telugu and Urdu in Old City.
He said according to GHMC findings there was a need for 1,900 bus shelters but at present there are only 1,180. He said that the officials identified that there was a need for bus shelters in another 450 places in the city and added that land acquisition was completed and soon tenders would be called to take up construction. Later, the minister revealed that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao would launch 1,600 new buses and all of them would be operated to various places in the city.
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