Mayor asks officials to barricade footpaths

HYDERABAD: Mayor Mohd Majid Hussain has directed town planning officials to relocate transformers and electric poles on widened portions of roads by taking up a special drive with the help of AP Central Power Distribution Company Limited (CPDCL).
Speaking at a coordination meeting with traffic police on traffic-related issues in the city, the mayor said poles and transformers were not relocated on many roads which were widened several years ago. He also asked the officials to take up a drive for removing encroachments and unauthorised parking on footpaths on priority basis. He also directed them to provide barricading on footpaths , in a phased manner, leaving spaces at pedestrian crossings. The mayor instructed GHMC commissioner M T Krishna Babu not to open the Lakdikapul parallel bridge now till the properties from Lakdikapul to Ganga Jamuna Hotel were acquired. The commissioner directed the town planning wing to speed up land acquisition process for the project.
GHMC commissioner Krishna Babu said 22 important corridors were chosen to sort out traffic-related problems in coordination with the traffic police.
Additional commissioner of police (Traffic) CV Anand said that there was a need to develop footpaths for the safety of pedestrians.