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NH-5 to be partly six-laned
Posted by Srini Uppala | December 30, 2007 | 411 views
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Loading ...National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken up survey to convert 1,100 km of four-lane highway into six lanes from Itchapuram to Tada by the year 2013.
It proposes to spend Rs.7,000 crore on the project, involving an estimated Rs. 5 crore a km and to be executed on a ‘build, operate and transfer’ (BOT) system.
NHAI Project Director for Krishna, Guntur, East and West Godavari districts M. Chandrasekhar said that the Union Cabinet has decided to upgrade 8,500 km of the ‘golden quadrilateral’ into six lanes and the expansion formed part of the project.
In addition, the Central authority has initiated steps to convert Hyderabad-Vijayawada, Vijayawada-Machilipatnam two-lane roads into four-lanes.
Norms
Though the NHAI set 2013 as the deadline for the completion of the project, there were some specifications that need to be adhered to in the conversion of the four-lane highways into six-lanes.
One such norm was the average traffic on the four-lane roads should be of the order of 10,000 vehicles a day while development of a six-lane road would require traffic density in excess of 30,000.
An average 5,500 vehicles were plying on the four-lane highway as of now and the density is expected to be around 18,000 by 2013.
The traffic could be much higher once the activities in the port and special economic zones picked up momentum on expected lines.
He said that the NHAI would adopt public-private partnership mode in case of private partners did not turn up.
Contract period for the private investors was likely to be pegged at around 12 years.
A survey on the stretch between Vijayawada and Rajahmundry is already under way while the one covering the span between Visakhapatnam and Rajahmundry would be launched shortly.
SOURCES:
The Hindu
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