Over 1.5 lakh commuters navigate chaos on Hyderabad’s unfinished NH-44 flyover corridor amid the stalled Suchitra-Kompally project

For much than 1.5 lakh commuters utilizing the NH-44 corridor each day, the stalled and staggered operation of the Paradise-to-Dairy Farm (Suchitra) Elevated Corridor has turned what should beryllium a cardinal arterial way into a regular ordeal.

Half-finished flyover pillars rising from the mediate of the highway, dug-up work roads, uneven carriageways, dust-filled diversions and bottlenecks person go defining features of the stretch. Long-distance travellers, office-goers and section residents accidental navigating the corridor has go progressively frustrating arsenic task delays proceed to mount.

The concern has worsened adjacent the automobile showrooms astatine Bowenpally, wherever operation of the Paradise-to-Bowenpally flyover has entered its last phase. With portions of the carriageway occupied by ongoing enactment and postulation squeezed into narrower lanes, peak-hour congestion has intensified.

Authorities person created an further lane connected the work roadworthy and installed signages to usher motorists done diversions. Yet, commuters accidental the measures person done small to easiness the regular struggle.

Meanwhile, enactment connected the Suchitra-Kompally flyover has remained stalled for much than a year, leaving a important conception of the task unfinished and adding further unit connected the corridor.

Residents picture the agelong arsenic a ‘massive unfinished mess’.

“I enactment adjacent to Dairy Farm roadworthy and thrust to Banjara Hills for enactment each day. There are lone 2 applicable routes — done Paradise oregon Fatehnagar — and some are heavy congested. I recognize delays are inevitable erstwhile infrastructure projects are nether way, but the potholes, damaged roads and diversions marque this agelong a nightmare to navigate,” said Gwyneth Felicia, 34, an operations manager who uses the corridor daily.

Traffic constabulary accidental respective interventions person been introduced to trim congestion. A U-turn was opened betwixt pillar numbers 35 and 36 to easiness question from Bowenpally towards Suchitra aft predominant bottlenecks were reported adjacent Suchitra junction. Another U-turn betwixt pillars 21 and 22 was aboriginal introduced for Alwal-bound commuters pursuing complaints that the earlier turning constituent was excessively acold away.

Despite these measures, a large choke constituent remains betwixt pillar numbers 28 and 29 and pillar 16 connected the Bowenpally to Alwal stretch, wherever the roadworthy narrows owed to a culvert. Officials said adjacent a little disruption of 30 to 45 seconds during highest postulation is capable to trigger agelong queues.

The task has faced repeated delays since enactment began successful July 2022. Although the latest completion people is June 2026, important portions of the corridor stay unfinished.

The agelong besides presents coordination challenges. While the Paradise-to-Bowenpally conception falls nether the Malkajgiri postulation police, the corridor from Suchitra junction onwards comes nether the Cyberabad commissionerate.

To negociate traffic, further unit are deployed astatine diversion points regular betwixt 6 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. by the Alwal postulation police, portion officials from the National Highways Authority of India and task agencies show operation enactment to forestall disruptions from spilling onto progressive carriageways.

Cyberabad Traffic DCP-2 S. Sheshadrini Reddy said enactment connected the Suchitra-Kompally agelong has remained suspended aft contractors approached the tribunal implicit fiscal and contractual disputes. “Traffic has been a cardinal contented connected this stretch. We person been deploying further unit and taking advertisement hoc measures specified arsenic barricading and signage. We person besides identified achromatic spots and precocious reviewed them to amended safety,” the serviceman said.

The prolonged operation has besides raised information concerns. Official information amusement that seven achromatic spots identified on the NH-44 flyover corridor recorded 50 accidents and 53 fatalities betwixt 2022 and 2025. During caller inspections of accident-prone locations crossed Cyberabad, unfinished roadworks and prolonged infrastructure projects emerged arsenic a recurring origin down crashes.

As operation drags on, the corridor continues to relation arsenic a large choke point, forcing thousands of vehicles onto adjacent colonies and interior roads that were ne'er designed to grip specified postulation volumes, leaving commuters to carnivore the outgo of a task inactive acold from completion.