Hyderabad's Kothaguda flyover may ease long-distance travel, but not local traffic

Hyderabad | Sunday | 16th June, 2019

Summary:

Additionally, for the traffic coming in from Hafeezpet side towards Gachibowli, to help them skip the traffic at Kothaguda, the officials have planned a unidirectional underpass. In Raheja, the local travel turned to grow much more than the long-distance travel, putting immense pressure on the ground level infrastructure. Senior officials from SRDP inform that at present long-distance travel constitutes close to 60-70% of the travel at the three junctions covered in this project. However, critics are asking how will the road on the ground carry the local traffic who won't use the flyover and constitute close to 30-40%? “The flyover project can be of optimum use if there is a bulk traffic coming from point of origin of the flyover to the point it ends..