one more monument of corruption

The dedicated flyover to the airport in Hyderabad is built so poorly that driving on that is like driving on a giant sandpaper !! At places the 4 lane elevated road becomes a 2 lane with the remaining lane on each side just disappearing into the abyss. (currently a lot of rumblers and other so called safety directions are in place - but how long before somebody speeding by just goes off - the edge - literally!!). One explanation is that this flyover is still "work-in-progress" and these spots are likely "merge/demerge" arms yet to be built!! hope so..

Another poor attempt at design is the amount of curves in the flyover which willy nilly bring down your speed to sub 40 levels. For the money and time spent they could have instead made a metro on this route!!

Another harbinger of waste - only cars and airport bound buses can use this. In a capital starved nation to spend this amount of money (est of 600 crore) and use it only for one use is criminal to say the least. The airport is still seen as an elitist mode of transport where 97% of the population is still dependent on rail, bus or just anything that is available - and you go and build an elevated expressway at the cheap rate of INR50+crore for every km and deny its use for 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers, other non-airport bound commercial traffic etc. is a sure recipe to lose an election.

A similar fraudulant exercise is underway in delhi with a dedicated line to the airport. This line will run from the city centre to the aiport. an extension(1km) to delhi's largest subcity (dwaraka) is also planned. but a crucial link to gurgaon which is just another 6km's would save more than 50% of the estimated 1 lac vehicles which move from west/nw delhi to gurgaon besides connecting the airport. Why this crucial link between west delhi and gurgaon is continually ignored is anybodys guess.