Army road to make way for Shamshabad airport

Hyderabad: A file doing the rounds of the Defence Ministry in New Delhi will determine how fast passengers in Hyderabad will get to the Shamshabad Airport that becomes functional on March 16. Realising that its own ineptitude will mean that the P V Narasimha Rao Expressway will be nowhere near ready and that this will lead to massive traffic jams in Mehdipatnam, the YSR government has sought opening up of a military road for civilian traffic.
This road starting from the entry point of the Mehdipatnam military station (next to the Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital) will come out through the Rhino Gate. "If the military allows usage of this road, traffic will get reduced on the Mehdipatnam road where the P V Narasimha Rao Expressway is being constructed and also in front of the busy Rythu Bazar," a senior government official said.
Highly placed sources said chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had spoken with defence minister A K Antony and sought his intervention to allow the military road for civilian use in the interests of the Congress government.
18/02/08 Times of India

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