I had read a rather shocking news recently in the local newspaper that Hyderabad is adding around 50,000 vehicles every two months. That approximately translates to a 1000 new vehicles hitting the road every day. Simply put, a thousand people realize every day that public transportation isn't going to work for them and decide to ride on their own, which reflects the sad state of transportation today in Hyderabad.
Considering the fact that neither the number of roads, nor the width of the roads is increasing, this is an unimaginable number of vehicles that is going to flood the roads and one that can eventually lead to a traffic chaos. Of course, the day is not far. Daily commuters like me can vouch for that. One can experience this slowly increasing congestion that hits you irrespective of what time it is. Be it 2.30 am in the morning or 2.30 pm in the afternoon. A steady flow of vehicles bumper to bumper is a regular sight these days all over the city.
Although, I can't say nothing is being done. I see these few and far initiatives by the traffic system. Some of them innovative, and some of them very quick in implementation. Have to give it to these guys for living with a system that has inifintely increasing demand with a fixed supply. Its definitely one of those management kind of problems on how to much manage such demand with so scanty resources. The challenge becomes all the more complex because any solution is going to take really long to implement, and in the process is going to lead to even bigger problems. Like the Metro rail being planned.
It has to be seen as to what pans out and how Hyderabad will face this challenge..
Considering the fact that neither the number of roads, nor the width of the roads is increasing, this is an unimaginable number of vehicles that is going to flood the roads and one that can eventually lead to a traffic chaos. Of course, the day is not far. Daily commuters like me can vouch for that. One can experience this slowly increasing congestion that hits you irrespective of what time it is. Be it 2.30 am in the morning or 2.30 pm in the afternoon. A steady flow of vehicles bumper to bumper is a regular sight these days all over the city.
Although, I can't say nothing is being done. I see these few and far initiatives by the traffic system. Some of them innovative, and some of them very quick in implementation. Have to give it to these guys for living with a system that has inifintely increasing demand with a fixed supply. Its definitely one of those management kind of problems on how to much manage such demand with so scanty resources. The challenge becomes all the more complex because any solution is going to take really long to implement, and in the process is going to lead to even bigger problems. Like the Metro rail being planned.
It has to be seen as to what pans out and how Hyderabad will face this challenge..
