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Now, small rotary is the problem!

Marri Ramu

Nagole rotary leaves huge space around it at intersection

-Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

No vigil: Absence of traffic police at Nagole crossroad leads to confusion.

HYDERABAD: Big size of the rotary is reason for traffic snarls at many junctions in the city. It is a paradox that traffic chaos is the result of the small rotary at Nagole!

The Nagole rotary, with the statue of the father of the nation located in the middle, is too small leaving huge space around it at the intersection. Vehicles could rarely be seen crossing the junction when the road from Uppal to L.B. Nagar was laid nearly a decade ago. Apparently, this prompted the engineers to go for a smaller rotary then.

With real estate business growing by leaps and bounds, the area transformed into a typical crowded junction of city centre. Naturally, the volume of traffic multiplied making traffic snarls and road accidents order of the day.

The peculiarity is more open space around the rotary is causing more traffic snarls. This is because, instead of going around the circle to turn right, vehicle drivers directly cross to the right side road taking advantage of the huge open space.

Commuters coming from Uppal and going towards fruit market halt at the junction and tend to drive directly towards the right. “We should go round the rotary as per norm, but because of the wide open space I prefer not to use the circle,” the locals say. They naturally run into the vehicles coming from fruit market and turning left towards Uppal.

Collision course

Impatient heavy vehicle drivers too, by honking horns to rush past the signal posts, prompt commuters to resort to this. Thus, head on collisions of vehicles resulting in serious injuries to people has become common. Seven-seaters stopping by the rotary to pick up passengers further chokes the junction.

Boarding point

With the location of a temple along the intersection, many people use it a point to board buses and auto-rickshaws bringing the traffic movement to a halt on the L.B. Nagar-Uppal route. Attempts to shift the place of worship were met with stiff resistance by the locals.

L.B. Nagar traffic Inspector V. Sridhar says rotary’s expansion and shifting the temple would streamline the messed up traffic scenario. The police also wrote to the authorities to install the traffic signal posts inside the rotary after expanding it so that commuters have better view of the signals.

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