LEDs light up Outer Ring Road to enhance the safety aspects for users

As part of the initiative to enhance the safety aspects for users of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) and reduce accidents during the night, the works on installing LED illumination from Kokapet to Shamshabad for a total of 136 kilometres was completed following the instructions of MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao.

The ORR, circling the city for over 158 km with eight lanes and a service road on either side with two lanes was constructed and opened to traffic in the year 2010. Initially, limited lighting was provided for a length of 1 km on either side at some of the interchanges with conventional lighting



system.

Later, the lighting of the main carriageway, service roads and interchanges between Gachibowli to Shamshabad for length of 22 km and four interchanges were taken up and completed in March 2018 at a cost of Rs 30 crore, which also includes five years of maintenance.

Following the Minister’s instructions, the HMDA/HGCL took up the LED Lighting on the balance stretch from Kokapet to Shamshabad, for the main carriageway, interchanges, service road for 1 km on either side of the junctions and underpasses for a total of 136 km. The work was taken up in four packages at a cost of Rs 100.22 crore which includes O&M of seven years.