Hyderabad blues

Don't worry, this is not going to be a review of the movie that hit the theatres in the late 90s. Rather this blog is more about the blues hyderabadis (and current residents of the city) are facing because of the traffic chaos.

Driving in hyderabad is dangerous especially on the "route" leading towards Hitech City (note the singular form of the word route). Just imagine a whole community of IT guys have to reach their destination by 9.00 a.m sorts. And what has the friendly traffic department done. No, I am not questioning and asking what they have done. On a fine sunny morning, MONDAY, they have made the entire stretch of the Hitech route ONE-WAY. Chaos, that is the only word I can use to sum up what happened on that balmy day. I developed a severe headache finding out a decent navigation route and ended up in office late (that doesn't matter) wondering what all that was about.

The evening scenario was no different. All buses, trucks, Scorpios, small cars, motorbikes, even the cyclists competing with each other to get on to the bylanes. End result, all commuters, residents staying in the peaceful bylanes of Hitech suffered and the traffic policemen suffered.

I heard from one of the traffic policemen that this was going to be a permanent traffic arrangement. By making the roads one way, how has the traffic been regulated. It has just got diverted to the parallel roads. Oh, i forgot to mention that the one way rules are imposed according to timings. 9.00 a.m to 12.00 p.m, road is one way allowing vehicles "from" Hitech towards other locations in the city and evenings, from 4.00 p.m to 9.00 p.m, vehicles from all other locations in the city can go to Hitech.

Do these rules make some sense to you ? It doesn't sound logical to me ...

--------- Thoughts penned by a vexed victim