Home > City Resources > Transportation > Modern Transportation  TOWARDS HAPPY COMMUTING  Jet Airways Transport Corporation     of India Car Rentals Movers and Packers Travel Agencies Air Timings Train Timings Bus and Auto Services Towards Happy Commuting Historical Places Places of Interest Picnic Spots Pilgrimage Centres Towns & Cities Coastal Areas Natural Resorts Luxury Hotels Semi-Luxury Hotels Economy Hotels Restaurants Pubs Ice Cream Parlours Fast food Looks like we won't have to spend lots of time making way through the on-road traffic. For, once the proposed Multimodal Commuter Transport System becomes operative, all traffic problems are bound to be off the road. And you may even love to take a city bus or a local train, that you abhorred earlier, to go shopping or to go to your workplace. Because with the proposed system you will be able to go from, say, Vansthalipuram to Patancheru, a distance of about 40 km in just minutes. The proposed Multimodal Commuter Transport System (MCTS) aims at synergising the existing rail and road infrastructure to create a modern, swift and cost-effective public transport system in the Twin Cities. The authorities have primarily identified two rail lines - Lingampally- Hyderabad (Nampally) and Lingampally-Secunderabad-Falaknuma to increase the frequency of local services so that the traffic on roads gets reduced. Beside the existing 24 stations on these two routes, the MCTS will construct eight more stations to bring down the average inter-station distance to around 2 km. These stations would be at Lakdi-ka-pul, Patigadda, Balkampet, Fatehnagar, Bahratnagar, Borabanda, Kukatpally and Chandanagar. MCTS will also lay additional tracks and modernise the signalling system. The project is designed to connect most of the important commercial areas in the capital. City buses would operate from all the 32 stations, connecting them to important places in the city. For instance, buses will ply from Kukatpally to HI-TEC City; Lakdi-ka-pul to Secretariat, Begumpet to Shopping plazas at Somjiguda, Yakutpura to Charminar and Umdanagar to the proposed international airport at Shamshabad. It is estimated that 32,000 two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and buses will go off the roads, reducing 3,100 tonnes of pollutants per annum, once the mass transit system commences operations. The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Indian Railways signed a Memorandum of Understanding on September 25, to form a joint venture company to take up the proposed project. The first phase of the project will be completed in 18 months at a cost of Rs. 60 crore which will be shared equally by the State government and the Railways. The long term plan envisages expansion of the system to carry 20 lakh passengers daily by connecting the state capital to Shadnagar, Vikarabad, Medchal and Vansthalipuram, where new residential colonies are coming up. |