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Hyderabad’s postulation congestion is nary longer simply an infrastructure occupation but a nonstop effect of shrinking nationalist transport, rising dependence connected backstage vehicles and mediocre municipality planning, mobility experts said during a municipality hallway connected the city’s transport aboriginal held connected Thursday (May 21, 2026).
Barely 30% nationalist and non-motorised transport
The treatment was dominated by statistics: astir 60-70% of trips successful Hyderabad are presently made utilizing backstage vehicles. Public transport and non-motorised transport unneurotic relationship for hardly 30%.
60-65% nationalist transport needed
“No metropolis tin negociate postulation if 100% radical question by backstage transport. It is impossible, adjacent with world-class infrastructure,” said Loksatta Founder Jayaprakash Narayan. “Hyderabad indispensable determination towards a 60-65% nationalist transport stock to debar semipermanent mobility collapse. The archetypal rule is improving the prime of nationalist transport, making it reliable, predictable, harmless and comfortable,” helium said.
The townhall highlighted however Hyderabad’s municipality maturation has acold outpaced its mobility systems.
Advisor to Telangana Government connected Urban Transport N.V.S. Reddy, Former IAS Janardhan Reddy , Loksatta Founder Jayaprakash Narayan, SCSC CEO Naved Khan and WRI India Fellow Srinivas Alavilli during the townhall | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Society for Cyber Security Council (SCSC) CEO Naved Khan said Cyberabad’s readying exemplary had overlooked integrating structured proscription into ample residential and commercialized developments.
“The question signifier was predictable. People question regular from the aforesaid residential areas to the aforesaid bureau clusters. Mass transit systems should person been integrated into metropolis readying from the beginning,” helium said.
World Resources Institute (WRI) India Fellow Srinivas Alavilli described Hyderabad’s declining autobus fleet, falling MMTS ridership and stagnating metro enlargement arsenic the city’s “biggest missed opportunities”.
Commuters assemblage the platforms astatine Ameerpet Metro Station. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR
Buses bash not necessitate onshore acquisition
“Unlike metros, buses bash not necessitate onshore acquisition oregon years of construction. You tin instantly deploy them wherever request exists,” said Mr Alavilli. He described the diminution of the MMTS arsenic a “massive organization failure”, citing however ridership has collapsed from astir 1.9 lakh passengers to lone astir 40,000 today.
He besides flagged the deficiency of maturation successful [Hyderabad] Metro coaches and web enlargement arsenic different informing sign, stressing that stronger Metro connectivity was indispensable to trim dependence connected backstage vehicles and hence the congestion crisis.
Mr. Khan said 70-80% of the city’s postulation problems were behavioural alternatively than purely infrastructural. “Lack of civic sense, impatience and roadworthy rage worsen postulation acold beyond the infrastructure limitations,” helium said.
Citing authorities data, erstwhile IAS serviceman Janardhan Reddy noted that postulation challans worthy astir ₹12,000 crore had been imposed crossed India, but lone astir ₹3,000 crore had been realised. “It is not conscionable astir issuing fines. The larger contented is whether we are capable to amended and alteration behaviour,” Mr. Reddy said.
