Hyderabad likely to get country’s longest tunnel road
India Today
Hyderabad is likely to get India's longest Highway Road Tunnel from Jubilee Hills Road No 45 Junction to Banjara Hills, Road No. 12 Junction. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will take up the construction of the proposed four-lane tunnel road.
Hyderabad will soon have the country’s longest Highway Road Tunnel, tentatively about 10 km from Jubilee Hills Road No 45 Junction to Banjara Hills, Road No. 12 Junction. The proposed four-lane tunnel will wind its way via the KBR Park junction to NFCL Junction, Punjagutta and will be dug using a Tunnel Boring Machine.
The Telangana government is mulling the idea of constructing a tunnel road that could help avoid the felling of trees at KBR park for the Strategic Road Development (SRDP) Project.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will take up the construction of the proposed four-lane tunnel road covering KBR Park junction to NFCL Junction, Punjagutta. The civic body will initiate a feasibility study for the project in the near future.
The government had earlier proposed six junctions around the KBR Park by constructing multi-level flyovers under the SRDP project, but this required felling of over 1,500 trees.
The Union government said that the GHMC should not touch the trees inside the first boundary wall of the park that come under the ESZ. The trees outside the second boundary wall did not come under the ESZ.
Against this backdrop, Municipal Minister KT Rama Rao instructed officials to explore the possibility of an underground tunnel to avoid felling of any tree.
