"pedestrians"

Despite offering safe pedestrian crossings, subways have failed to find acceptance in Hyderabad due to poor maintenance, flooding, security concerns and design flaws. With older underpasses lying abandoned, city planners have largely dropped subway projects from urban planning.

Pedestrians on the busy Erragadda stretch struggle as a GHMC-constructed foot overbridge remains largely unusable due to defunct lifts and escalators, accumulated garbage, and encroaching vendors. Officials’ negligence has left commuters vulnerable and frustrated despite significant expenditure.

In Hyderabad, inebriated youngsters caused chaos on Madhapur main road, abusing and assaulting each other, pedestrians, and motorists outside a pub. Madhapur police are investigating the viral incident

Trio, all residents of Musheerabad, moved around the city on a motorcycle and targeted pedestrians

Presently, works with an estimated budget of Rs 21.07 crore are underway across the city.

Hyderabad: The Nizamabad police on Tuesday arrested a six-member gang including a juvenile on charges of snatching smart phones from pedestrians. The gang members had stolen 22 smart phones from pedestrians in the last six months by travelling on two motorcycles without number plates, said Nizamabad Police Comissioner KR Nagaraju. He said 22 stolen mobile […]

From January this year, till August, 145 pedestrians were killed in the Cyberabad Traffic Police limits alone. Abrupt crossing of the road and jaywalking were not the only reasons

Hyderabad: Crossing the roads is going to become a lot easier in several busy spots in the city, courtesy 17 Foot over Bridges (FoB) that are being installed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation at strategic locations. The civic body officials have set a deadline of December this year to complete the construction of these […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar along with senior officials visited the Tank Bund on Sunday and reviewed the security arrangements on the stretch in view of the road closure between 5 pm and 10 pm to faciliate pedestrians. He also inspected the arrangements made by the traffic police to ensure implementation of diversions and […]

With pedestrians accounting for 23% of total deaths in road accidents, traffic police are taking fresh initiatives

The police are identifying places where there are rampant incidents of wrong side driving with special teams to take up drives and awareness campaigns in those areas

The move is aimed at giving the municipality an image makeover that is expected to be completed in a couple of months.

A total of 237 people died in accidents in the city, of which around 120 people died due to head injuries after falling from motorcycles/scooters