Secunderabad residents launch campaign for better road connectivity

Campaign aims at reaching out to State government, municipal officials to highlight lack of road connectivity to densely populated colonies of northeastern parts of Secunderabad

Hyderabad: The Federation of Northeastern Colonies of Secunderabad, comprising residents from Cantonment, Sainikpuri, Vayupuri, Dr AS Rao Nagar, ECIL, Nagaram, Dammaiguda, Nedermet, Safilguda and Malkajgiri, launched a campaign on Wednesday demanding better road connectivity to their areas.

The campaign is an aimed at reaching out to the State government and municipal officials to highlight the lack of road connectivity to the densely populated colonies of the northeastern parts of Secunderabad.

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On the first day of the campaign, the federation members decided to highlight the major bottleneck at the RK Puram flyover.

“This is Day 1 of our campaign in sensitising and reaching out to the authorities and the State government to widen the RK Puram road or give us a provision for another flyover besides the RK Puram flyover,” the residents said, adding, “We are struggling with a narrow RK Puram road over bridge (ROB).”

The demand for a new parallel flyover along the existing narrow RK Puram flyover has been pending for a long time. “It is not known as to why the State government and GHMC are not paying attention to this serious issue as citizens are affected every day by the traffic clogging on the flyover,” Vijay S Dabade, a resident of Cantonment, said on X.

The demand for a new parallel flyover beside the existing narrow RK Puram Flyover is pending since a long time. It is not known as to why State Govt & GHMC is not paying attention to this serious issue as citizens are affected due to every day traffic clogging on the Flyover.

— Vijay (@vijaysdabade) November 20, 2024

The members pointed out that the RK Puram ROB is very narrow while the vehicular population has increased many fold. They said there is a need for a wider ROB than the existing one.

Another resident, Meena Ravindran, said on X: “The RK Puram road needs immediate attention. It is full of damaged topping and exposed metal. Appears so unsafe but the public has no choice.”

The road needs urgent immediate attention. It’s full of damaged topping and exposed metal. Appears so unsafe, but the public has no choice. Just dare and bear

— Meena Ravindran (@Meena44240998) November 20, 2024

“The ROB is horrible during peak hours, poor citizens have no other option than being stuck in traffic jam for hours. I hope it is widened at the earliest,” another resident, Chandras, said.