Faulty traffic signals spark confusion, chaos
The traffic signal at Rajendranagar was not working for three months.
Hyderabad: Traffic signals are frequently on the blink or completely stop working at several important junctions in the city, at places as far apart as Rajendranagar dairy farm and Chanchalguda jail. Commuters were left fretting and fuming at multiple locations as traffic police personnel struggle to manually control the flow of vehicles.
The traffic signal at Chanchalguda jail near the government press had stopped working for a month. Md. Mujeeb Khan, a social activist from the Old City who travels on the road daily, said. “During peak hours the traffic is thrown out of gear because the traffic lights are not working. It also makes the life of pedestrians difficult.”
The signal was repaired recently.
Mirchowk traffic police inspector A. Ravi said the repairs took some time as a sensitive part had got damaged, and it required experts to come to the spot.
The traffic signal at Rajendranagar was not working for three months.
Mr K. Raju, who takes the road every day, said, “A lot of people take this route to reach their offices in the IT corridor. In the morning and evening hours this road sees bumper to bumper traffic. If there is any problem in between, traffic comes to halt.”
Asked about the problem, Rajendranagar traffic inspector K. Venkateshwar said, “While they were laying the water pipelines, the workers accidentally disturbed the cable of the traffic signal. This has resulted in signal deactivation.”
He said the police department had been been informing the authorities in Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL, which looks after the maintenance of traffic signals) since then but they have not been able to trace the problem, Mr Venkateshwar said.