Metro and its impact on Hyderabad.

Metro rail isn’t a luxury, but is a mere necessity. For most of the cities worldwide metro is the most preferable mass transport system as it offers travel-friendly environment and provides feasible solutions to various challenges which occur in the process of the expansion of the city.

Hyderabad Metro! The 16,375 Crore rupee megaproject is the world’s largest project carried on in the PPP (Public Private Partnership) model, where an amount of 1,458 Crore rupees is granted by the Government to bridge the viability gap. When commenced, Hyderabad’s Metro Rail project will become the world’s most advanced metro rail system using state of the art technology and resources in Station Planning, Train control Systems, Signaling systems, Track monitoring, MEP, and Communication systems, covering a total of 72 KMs in three traffic corridors with 57 Trains.

The first phase from Nagole to Miyapur runs for 30 KMs via Ameerpet interchange metro station, and is set to start its run from 28^th of November by the hands of the Prime minister of India at Miyapur station. When commenced, it will be the longest initial stretch for any metro launch in India.

Following are a few highlights and interesting points of the Hyderabad’s most ambitious Project.

 

Metro’s impact on the city.

·        Connects major areas:

The project significantly improves the connectivity between all the major locales of the city i.e., Miyapur, MGBS, Koti, Dilshuknagar, Charminar, and Jubilee Bus station which as of today is grossly insufficient and often crowded. This also results in faster, hassle-free and safer mobility to all the commuters.

·        Business Opportunities:

Hyderabad’s metro rail project provides various business opportunities to the industrialists by integrating shopping complexes and multiplex theatres to the nearest metro rail stations and providing areas on rent/lease for commercial purposes.

·        Youth Empowerment:

L&T Hyderabad’s metro rail provides various job opportunities to the youth so as to encourage them in learning and enhancing their knowledge as well as skillset. The employees of the project are going to be provided various benefits such as work life balance, flexibility, professional freedom and cooperative as well as supportive work environment. This project provides scope for innovation and exploration of new ideas while absorbing the strength from the practices that have been already established.   

·        Eco friendly:

Air pollution and traffic on roads would be reduced as the metro provides mass transport to the citizens of Hyderabad which reduces the heavy usage of personal vehicles and the journey time of the passengers.

·        Women Empowerment:

Hyderabad’s metro project encourages women empowerment as the trains are going to be controlled by 100 pilots out of whom 66 are men and 34 are women. This ratio may seem low, but it is significantly higher when compared to the national average of similar jobs in railways and other metro services.

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     Others:

• Effective Integration with the rail terminals that are existing at Secunderabad, Nampally and Begumpet.
• Link to MMTS services at Lakdikapul, Khairtabad, Begumpet, Bharatnagar, Faluknama and Malakpet.
• Feeder-bus services to all the stations from different corners of the city will be provided by Government of the state.
• Environment-friendly mode of transport - reduces emission of carbons, consumption of fuel and pollution.

Major Highlights

• Provides most comfortable and risk free travel experience for over 1000 commuters at a time.
• Faster commute.
• Elevated best – in – class constructions along the route.
• Fully air conditioned high capacity carriers.
• Provides automatic fare collection system which indeed reduces waiting time.
• High class escalators and elevators at all the stations.
• Facilitates parking and automatic ticketing.
• Basic facilities like telephones, information systems and toilets are also provided.

Instructions to be followed while travelling in metro:

• The stations are divided into three areas i.e., public, private and platform areas. Time can be spent by the people in public area, travellers who bought the tickets can enter into private area and then into platform area at the time of arrival of the train.
  
• Commuters must sit in the space that is provided for seating and are not allowed to sit on floors.
• Each passenger can carry a weight only upto 10kg and anything over 10kgs upto 40kgs (max) will be charged. The dimensions of the bags i.e., the length, width and the height must not exceed 60, 45 and 25cms respectively.
• Train must be boarded within 30 minutes of the purchase of the ticket.
• Waiting for more than two hours in the shopping complexes which are inside metro is prohibited. Penalty will be imposed if the time is exceeded.
• Must not carry highly flammable goods and sharp objects inside the premises of the metro like petrol, kerosene, cylinders, lighters and knives.