Road widening finally begins on Hitec City Road; relief in sight for IT commuters

After years of gridlock and months of uncertainty, roadworthy widening works person yet begun connected the heavily congested agelong betwixt Lemon Tree and Trident Hotel successful Madhapur connected the Hitec City Road, pursuing a caller coordination gathering betwixt the Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TGIIC), the energy section and the postulation police.

The kilometre-long corridor is simply a captious nexus for Cyberabad’s IT belt, carrying regular postulation from large exertion hubs specified arsenic Raheja Mindspace, Knowledge City and CapitaLand arsenic good West Hyderabad residential hubs, including Madhapur, Kondapur, Gachibowli, Manikonda and Kukatpally. An estimated 5 lakh employees beryllium connected the roadworthy for their regular commute, with conveyance volumes touching 1.5 lakh each day, making it 1 of the busiest stretches successful the city.

Although the widening connection had received support past year, enactment connected the crushed lone began astatine the extremity of January. The task was initially expected to statesman by the extremity of August 2025, but advancement stalled owed to the beingness of large underground electrical infrastructure and the request for inter-departmental clearances.

Construction enactment began astir 2 weeks agone and is presently focused connected relocating 2 large powerfulness cables of 11 kV and 133 kV capacity, on with different electrical wiring. The task involves adding a 3rd lane to the existing two-lane stretch, which is expected to trim commute times by up to 30 minutes during highest bureau hours.

According to Madhapur Traffic Inspector Sridhar Kumar, the adjacent signifier of the task volition impact controlled blasting of a chromatic outcrop adjacent the Trident Hotel to make abstraction for the caller lane. He said these activities would beryllium carried retired during nighttime hours to minimise inconvenience to commuters. During definite phases of construction, 1 of the existing lanes whitethorn beryllium temporarily closed, for which alternate routes volition beryllium planned and communicated to commuters successful advance.

Officials estimation the roadworthy widening works could instrumentality anyplace betwixt 5 months and a twelvemonth to beryllium completed.

The agelong adjacent the Trident Hotel has agelong been a large pinch point. Here, six incoming lanes converge abruptly into conscionable two, including 3 lanes from the Raidurgam underpass, 2 from Deloitte Drive and 1 wide lane from the Mindspace rotary. This abrupt narrowing routinely brings postulation to a standstill, with conveyance speeds dropping to arsenic debased arsenic 10 kmph and waiting times stretching beyond 30 minutes during highest periods.

In the interim, alternate routes specified arsenic the Parvath Nagar road underbridge and the Tech Mahindra nexus roadworthy towards the Hitex signal are being utilized to easiness postulation pressure.

While commuters person welcomed the commencement of the works, galore accidental the existent trial volition beryllium timely execution.