LB Nagar junction continues to be a chaotic place the place site visitors slows down enormously on daily basis regardless of the development of a number of buildings beneath the Strategic Street Growth Plan (SRDP).
Building of two flyovers on both facet of the Hyderabad Metro Rail, two extra in the direction of the Bairamalguda facet, three underpasses — two on the junction between Nagole and Bairamalguda, and one close to Chintalkunta Y junction — have solely resulted in partial decision of the site visitors points close to the junction.
“The only positive development is removal of traffic signals here. Otherwise, it is more chaotic than when no structures were here. Then, we just had to wait for the signal to turn green. Now, we are forced to downshift the gear and wait for the traffic ahead to clear up,” complained M. Srinivasulu, a commuter.
Even whereas the flyovers have confirmed to be helpful for autos crossing over the junction, their development has had solely restricted use because of constricted highway width on each side. The site visitors descending from the flyover in the direction of Hayatnagar slows down each night as half of the highway forward is occupied by outward certain non-public buses to locations akin to Khammam and Vijayawada. The flyover in the direction of Kothapet is severely constrained as a result of incapability of the Better Hyderabad Municipal Company to widen the highway sufficient to take the load of all of the autos touchdown there. Even the flyover is half barricaded to scale back speeds, which matches towards the very function of getting the construction there.
The 2 streams of autos, one progressing from Nagole facet in the direction of Hayatnagar and the opposite coming from Hayatnagar in the direction of Nagole have the hardest time. It’s chaotic forward of and close to the junction for autos from Hayatnagar in the direction of Nagole, as they should negotiate method between the slim stretches left between the Metro Rail pillars and the flyover piers, additional divided by barricades arrange by the site visitors police.
TSRTC buses have a cease proper in the midst of the highway right here, beside the flyover, which decelerate the autos behind nearly to zero kilometres per hour. From the junction, the motorists are rerouted on a closely broken highway, in the direction of the precise facet highway, the place they should take a U flip across the pillars of the flyover to be on their technique to Nagole. The commuters coming from Nagole facet and headed for Kothapet, must take a left flip after which a roundabout to search out their method, which isn’t any much less cumbersome.
“Most irksome is the absolute lack of any measure to prevent clash between the traffic heading for the flyover from Kothapet side, and the traffic crossing over from the main road to the service road towards Nagole. They can simply barricade the way between main road and the service road, which is not being done,” says N. Varaprasad, one other commuter.
The intersection between the principle highway and the service highway is sort of all the time occupied by shuttle autorickshaws in search of passengers alighting from Metro Rail, which complicates the state of affairs.
Officers from GHMC have proposed a site visitors island on the junction to streamline site visitors on all sides, however to date the work has not begun.