JAM JAM HYDERABAD

From a college student to an IT professional, every one curses the city traffic. Ever wondered where does the traffic come from? It comprises of every individual, including you. What makes the Hyderabadi traffic the talk of the town? Reasons are many from a VIP convoy, to bad road conditions, to various constructions, to violation of traffic rules, the list is endless.

If a VIP wants to pass from a particular place all the vehicles are stopped till that convoy passes. In other countries even a governor drives his own car sans a convoy to reach his destination. Poor maintenance of city roads causes massive traffic jam as well as health problems. There were cases in countries like U. S. where motorists suffering from backache due to bad road conditions demand compensation from the authorities for not maintaining roads.

India is a country with different cultures, religions. Every other day we have a festival which requires procession on roads. Be it Muharram, Ganesh Chaturthi, or Guru Nanak Jayanti each of these require long religious processions leaving the traffic at a snail’s pace. Come elections and the situation worsen. On the other hand our Hyderabadi Nawab’s are also a major cause of traffic jams. There might be a ‘free left’ for motorists, one could hardly utilize this facility. This is also a traffic rule which many people violate.There are vehicles which simply block free-left, leaving a long tail of vehicles honking. But now because of RTA’s efforts it has become a bit easier to take a free left. Road rages also block roads. Road rage are a cause of violating road rules and not respecting fellow commuters. As Hyderabad is developing rapidly there are construction works going on 365days a year, sometimes a flyover is under construction, or foot over and now the metro rail project. There is cable department, water department, sewage department who needs to dig up the road to maintain their respective works with ‘inconvenience regretted’ boards. These works leave only little space for vehicular movement. Besides this there are commercial complexes that don’t have their parking lots, forcing visitors to park their vehicles on roads. These parked vehicles cause inconvenience to motorists. Illegal parking is major concern in lanes as well as on busy roads. Various stalls encroach our city roads. All these are reasons enough for traffic jams.

RTA as well as civilians are responsible for terrible city traffic. There are many possible ways to avoid traffic jams to an extent. Authorities should ensure that every commercial complex have their own parking space. There should be a good parking system which can keep traffic jams at bay. Civilians should not go out of their way to take out religious processions. No religion should cause inconvenience to anyone. Most importantly follow traffic rules and respect fellow motorists.