After the popular Metro Rail Transport, the city of pearls and Minarets Hyderabad is getting ready for another elevated public transport system with the Telangana government ready with DPR to build an Elevated Bus Rapid Transit System (EBRTS) Corridor from KPHB to Financial District in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
The Hyderabad Airport Metro Limited (HAML) — special purpose vehicle formed to build the Metro rail to the international airport and to oversee the proposed Elevated Bus Rapid Transit System (EBRTS) — has announced that the city-based infrastructure and engineering consultancy agency, Aarvee Associates, is almost ready with the Detailed Project Report (DPR).
The twenty kilometer elevated corridor is to pass through HiTec City MMTS station, HICC, Hitex, move towards MindSpace junction, Gachibowli and halt at Narsingi before the Outer Ring Road (ORR). Electric articulated twin/three buses joined by a vestibule are to be exclusively run on this corridor which will connect all top IT/ITES firms in the Financial District through ramps.
The Detailed Project Report is for the estimated ₹2,400-crore EBRTS corridor from Kukatpally Housing Board (KPHB) to Financial District in Gachibowli.
HAML is the facilitating agency for building the project in the public-private partnership mode, TS Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) are also associated with the project.
EBRTS envisages running of electric articulated twin/three buses to be exclusively run on the viaduct to be built on piers akin to the metro rail project but at a much less height.
The elevated bus corridor would be connecting HiTex, HICC, Hi-Tec City, MindSpace junction, Gachibowli and Narsingi with elevated stations at half a kilometre each.
