Great news. That is an indication for future. "Until their interests are taken into consideration, they will disrupt any work related to the metro project" is the warning of the traders. If govt thinks they can bulldoze thousands of shops, people won't take it lying down. L&T, better watch out and get out of this project.
Traders disrupt metro rail work at Ameerpet
Times of India, Hyderabad, Dec 3, 2011.
HYDERABAD: Officials of L&T who started the initial inspection work at Greenlands, Ameerpet on Friday for the Hyderabad metro project, were forced to leave the site within a few minutes by protesting local traders. The officials who had started surveying the area at around 11:30 am were soon confronted with the members of the trader community of Ameerpet who questioned their presence since they had obtained a stay order from court.
"The stay order issued by the high court does not permit any project-related work to start here. This is nothing but contempt of court," said A N Shankar, president, Anti-Metro Rail Project Ameerpet JAC.
The protestors did not allow the officials to carry out any inspection and forced them to leave the site. They said no work can be taken up until the matter is settled in court. The surveyors soon left the site. Traders had moved the court against the metro corridor passing through Ameerpet demanding to know why its original plan through Punjagutta was changed.
B Gopal, a protesting trader of the area, who is also losing a significant portion of his property to the project said, "The proposed road widening in this area has no uniform pattern on either side of the road. The project officials and the government should hold transparent discussions with us and only after that they should go ahead with the project. How can they ignore us when we have been an integral part of this area and our life revolves around it?" Another protesting trader C H Naveen threatened that until their interests are taken into consideration, they will disrupt any work related to the metro project.
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This is one of the response to the questions that were raised by you with regards to metro on other forums, which seem to be more active than your blog.
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LMAO
what lame arguments against the metro, I mean vibrations in nearby buildings for god's sake, its a metro not a "zalzala".
Security aspect is stupid too as Mumbai Monorail passes over Arthur road jail and here they are only talking about Parade ground and DGP office.
Demolitions is a childish argument too - as the "activist proposes BRTS and that too 100Km of it, this will narrow the road space incredibly unless ofcourse there are "DEMOLITIONS" , so they're gonna happen either ways.
Busy market places will be wiped out, huh ?? , how is that. Delhi metro have proven that with the arrival of metro the economy of several old markets such as chandani chowk and karol bagh has improved four fold as people who genrally don't commute there, start to take the metro to reach previously congested areas.
About noise levels, would the "activists" rather have cars and buses blowing drums in peoples ears in schools and hospitals, modern day metro's are fairly quiet.
Then comes the argument of the mess which construction would create, I wonder if the activists would rather have no construction and in 20 years hyderabad would be completly choked from cars."