‘Every flyover creates demand for four more’: Experts seek rethink of Hyderabad’s traffic model

A continuous one-way traffic system is active around the KBR Park corridor due to ongoing H-CITI construction works, in Hyderabad on Tuesday; a signboard indicating the routes to be taken; and police personnel deployed to guide motorists and manage the traffic. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL What if Hyderabad stopped building flyovers to solve its traffic problems? Urban transport experts and citizens want the Telangana government to pause major flyover and road-widening projects and instead redesign the city’s existing roads to prioritise public transport, pedestrians and cyclists.The proposal was among a series of recommendations made at a citizens’ round table titled ‘Choked: How Do We Move People, Not Cars’ held at Goethe Zentrum in Hyderabad on Saturday (August 22). The recommendations,