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Bad roads and bumpy drives
Driving in tri-cities of Warangal-Hanamkonda-Kazipet has now become nothing short of an endurance test. Thanks to the condition of city roads fraught with pot-holes, poor traffic regulation and lack of civic sense among the motorists.
Traffic increasing alarmingly in city
Warangal: Driving in tri-cities of Warangal-Hanamkonda-Kazipet has now become nothing short of an endurance test. Thanks to the condition of city roads fraught with pot-holes, poor traffic regulation and lack of civic sense among the motorists.
With the ever-increasing number of vehicles, it seems that the days are not far away when the roads of tri-cities will witness a bumper-to-bumper traffic like the State capital, Hyderabad.Despite enforcement of one-way in some areas and close down of right turns between Warangal and Kazipet railway stations, a near 14-kilometer stretch considered as the major route in the city, there seems to be no end to traffic chaos over the years.
Take petrol bunk area, abutting Police Headquarters, and a couple of kilometres down towards Karimnagar the SDLCE junction, at any given time barring late nights, one would find vehicles crisscrossing perilously. Besides these centres, Pochamma Maidan, Mulugu X road, Ashoka theatre circle, Lashkar Bazar, Adalat etc are other points that one would have to spar with the huge number of vehicles.
Making the commuting further worse was the appalling condition of roads – Ambedkar statue-NGO’s colony, Hanamkonda chowrastha-Vijaya Talkies, Bus station-Ashoka theatre chowrastha, Balasamudram-Bus station, 80 feet road that connects the Collectorate etc besides inordinate delay in the construction of a RoB connecting beat bazaar-old Saroja talkies.
While the situation is like this, the number of vehicles plying in the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) is increasing by every day.
In all, the Greater city, which has a population of about 8.50 lakh, has 5.37 lakh vehicles consisting of around 4.09 lakh two-wheelers, 45,800 four-wheelers, 32,350 auto-rickshaws and 49,870 other automobiles.
Barring the existing roads, as of now, and until the implementation of new Master plan, the denizens will have to bear the brunt of inadequate and narrow roads. There are several junctions in the city that went defunct and craving for attention. On the other hand, the short-staffed traffic police that barely have 100 personnel in the city say that a bit of civic sense and improved condition of roads will do wonders.
Reacting over the plight of roads, the Forum for Better Warangal president Pullur Sudhakar said: “The Greater city is in danger of facing acute air pollution in the times to come. Already the vehicle fleet ratio is perilously poised as there are nearly 600 vehicles per every 1,000 persons.”
Speaking to The Hans India, Mayor Nannapaneni Narender said: “Once the Master plan is ready, the city will undergo a huge transformation with the authorities to take up the construction of alternative roads besides road widening and development of approach roads.”
On the other hand, it was proposed to develop roads - Alankar-Kapuwada, MGM-Bhadrakali temple, Machili Bazaar-Bus station etc, under the Smart City project.
Adepu Mahender
