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The National Highway 65, the engaged Hyderabad–Vijayawada corridor, came nether terrible strain connected Saturday evening arsenic a monolithic post-Sankranti instrumentality to the metropolis triggered agelong hours of bumper-to-bumper postulation crossed aggregate stretches, forcing constabulary to instrumentality large-scale diversions to forestall a implicit standstill.
Traffic constabulary officials said the measurement of vehicles surged sharply from astir 4 p.m., with an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 vehicles crossing the Panthangi toll plaza connected Saturday alone, with the travel expected to intensify done the nighttime arsenic families proceed their journeys backmost to Hyderabad.
At Suryapet, constabulary recorded an mean of 40 vehicles passing each one-and-a-half minutes successful the evening, with surveillance drones deployed on the road for proceed monitoring of the inflow.
The concern worsened adjacent Kodad, wherever continuous queues of vehicles led constabulary to restrict the road to cars and rider transport vehicles. Heavy vehicles, including trucks, lorries and goods carriers, were diverted disconnected NH 65 towards Huzurnagar, Miryalaguda, Haliya, Chintapally, to easiness unit connected the main carriageway.
By 8 p.m., astir 600 dense vehicles had already been diverted from the National Highway, arsenic per the accusation shared by an authoritative from the Kodad police.
Miryalaguda emerged arsenic a large unit constituent arsenic postulation from aggregate directions converged connected the town. In summation to dense vehicles diverted from NH 65, postulation from Guntur, Macherla and adjacent Tirupati was rerouted done Miryalaguda, Haliya, Kondamallepally and Chintapally arsenic portion of the diversion program announced by the Nalgonda territory police. Officials said the travel besides included instrumentality vehicles from Krishnapatnam and Visakhapatnam ports.
Over 500 officials from the Nalgonda constabulary were deployed connected crushed to negociate the traffic. Vehicles from Nalgonda towards Hyderabad were diverted done Marriguda bypass, Munugodu, Narayanapur and Choutuppal, portion postulation from Macherla was diverted via Nagarjunasagar and Peddavura earlier joining Chintapally. In addition, vehicles were besides diverted from Chityal via Bhongir towards Hyderabad.
To negociate the inflow person to the city, much than 150 postulation constabulary unit were deployed astatine Choutuppal, 1 of the cardinal introduction points into Hyderabad.
