Shamshabad fliers in for traffic jams

Hyderabad: If you are planning to take the first flight out of the city's swank new airport Shamshabad in March 2008, be warned that you might miss it if you didn't start from home early. Blame it on traffic.
For, of all the airport connectivity projects being built, only one is up to speed, the rest languishing in different stages of delay.
The Shamshabad international airport is scheduled to go operational in March 2008. The airport is likely to handle about 200 landings and takeoffs in its first year of operation.
No less than four road- and rail-based projects have been planned to ensure connectivity to the airport. Of these, only the Outer Ring Road (ORR) phase I, a 22-km, six-lane freeway from Gachibowli to Shamshabad, seems likely to keep its date with the first flight.
14/09/06 Richa Bansal/Times of India

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