Hyderabad:

The Hyderabad Metro Rail completed the construction of its 1,000th viaduct at the S.R Nagar bus stop on Sunday. A total of 2,665 viaducts are required for the 72 km Metro Rail.

The 1,000th via duct came up in just 20 months. Mumbai took seven years to complete the 11 km stretch for viaducts, Bengaluru and Chennai took five years to complete 25 km.

N. V. S. Reddy, managing director, HRM, said, “The biggest precast yards at Uppal and Qutubullahpur helped us to finish on time.”

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC Correspondent / July 28th, 2014