Five flyover, underpass works along 15-km stretch leave over 5 lakh commuters battling traffic on Mumbai Highway

With operation enactment connected for 4 flyovers and an underpass connected a 15-kilometre agelong of the Mumbai Highway (NH-65), much than 5 lakh commuters travelling done 1 of Telangana’s busiest concern corridors are contending with regular bottlenecks, diversions and shrinking roadworthy space.

The postulation is affected connected the corridor from ICRISAT, adjacent BHEL Township to Ganesh Gadda, wherever flyovers are being built astatine Isnapur X roads, Lakdaram junction, Rudraram and Ismailkhanpet, on with an underpass astatine Novopan junction.

At Novopan junction, operation of retaining walls for the conveyance underpass has gathered gait and the carriageways connected either broadside person been closed and postulation diverted onto impermanent two-lane work roads measuring lone astir 8 to 10 metres successful width.

Vehicles travelling from the ORR and Sangareddy towards Patancheru are being routed done the left-side work roadworthy from Pocharam Kaman up to Patancheru Vegetable Market Road earlier rejoining NH-65. Traffic successful the other absorption is being diverted from Incor Lake City Apartments up to Ramky Infra Tower earlier merging backmost onto the highway.

The agelong successful Patancheru, present nether Cyberabad constabulary commissionerate, serves arsenic a captious artery linking Hyderabad with Sangareddy and further towards Maharashtra and Karnataka, portion besides supporting regular question to immoderate of State’s largest concern clusters. Traffic constabulary estimation that implicit 5 lakh commuters usage the corridor each day. This includes astir 2 lakh employees successful the pharmaceutical and manufacturing units located successful IDA Patancheru and IDA Pashamylaram.

School and assemblage buses and dense goods vehicles transporting earthy materials and finished products signifier different large stock of postulation of postulation connected the road. More than 1 lakh migrant workers residing successful localities specified arsenic Isnapur and Chitkul and employed successful ceramic kilns, operation sites and smaller concern establishments besides usage the corridor. The resulting premix of concern traffic, worker transport, acquisition instauration buses and freight question leaves small country for postulation absorption erstwhile lanes are reduced for operation activity.

Patancheru Traffic Inspector Ashok said the simultaneous execution of aggregate projects person created postulation absorption challenges. “We person little unit and much works happening here. About 20 unit are managing this stretch, with astir 10 members deployed successful each shift,” helium said.

According to him, Novopan and Isnapur stay the astir congested locations portion different unit points see the Sri Siddhi Vinayaka Temple country successful Rudraram, which witnesses important regular footfall, and Muthangi adjacent ORR exit 3, wherever residential and commercialized postulation continues to grow.

Patancheru Inspector G. Vinayak Reddy said postulation congestion is terrible betwixt 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and again from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. erstwhile concern employees question to and from work, necessitating the deployment of instrumentality and bid unit alongside postulation constabulary and marshals.

Officials estimated that commuters acquisition delays ranging from 15 to 30 minutes connected astir days. “I preferred driving to work, but with the ongoing construction, I person switched to the institution bus.. After crossing Patancheru, determination is inactive the IT postulation to woody with earlier I scope location successful Chandanagar,” said R. Priyadarshini, a pharmaceutical worker who commutes regular to Pashamylaram.

Deputy Executive Engineer Ramakrishna of the National Highways helping of the Telangana Roads and Buildings (R&B) section said the people was to implicit the operation works by March 2027. “Some onshore acquisition issues stay astatine definite locations. There are spiritual structures arsenic good arsenic residential properties astatine places specified arsenic Muthangi and Isnapur wherever onshore acquisition is inactive required,” helium said.

He said onshore constraints had affected the sequencing of operation activities. “The work roads were to beryllium completed archetypal earlier enactment began connected the main carriageway. Because of onshore restrictions, we person had to undertake some simultaneously successful immoderate locations, which has accrued inconvenience for roadworthy users,” helium said.