Metro to get an aesthetic touch.

Imagine a blue streak of light all along the three metro rail corridors – L.B. Nagar to Miyapur, JBS to Falaknuma and Nagole to Raidurg – with signboards too in light emitting diodes (LED) run on solar energy. Greenery throughout the length of the railway with creepers on piers, ornamental plants or shrubs beneath the viaduct.

Also, handrails and different tiles to help pedestrians and the disabled, separate parking space for emergency vehicles, signboards indicating the destinations beneath, green screens for ad campaigns, sculptures at appropriate spaces and murals on the viaduct walls.

If the plans of the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) fructify and if the award winning designs showcased by landscaping architects from different parts of the country is anything to go by, the entire elevated mass rapid transit system coming up will be eco-friendly as well as aesthetic.

Rohit Andrade of Earth Work (Bangalore), Oscar of Oscar & Ponni Architects (Chennai) and Harish Vangara of iammies Landscapes (Hyderabad) bagged the first three prizes, including cash awards of Rs. 8 lakh, Rs. 6 lakh and Rs. 4 lakh respectively.

THE HINDU