Road users' woes

There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel, who knows if we could finally see anything in that light, at last! There seems to be some swift action about the murkier affairs of the IPL. Let us wish that some thing positive emerges out of these knee-jerk reactions, to say the least. Let us leave it to chance. Human beings, by nature, are great believers in hope. Sometimes it works as oxygen and sometimes it gives them many a lifeline. What else they can do, if not hope for better things to happen- better administration, better civic sense, better civic amenities, better environment, etal.

When I write here about better civic amenities, what strikes me more hard is the travails of the road users making things more complicated with each passing day. The other day there was a proposed "Chalo Assembly" for which traffic police have devised a way out for fizzling out the protestors' plan. They have literally turned Hyderabad into a fortress. It was very tough being a vehicle user, what with the necessity to reach office from home and then going back becoming a nightmarish affair. There were more diversions than allowed roads for the users. There was this barbed fence throughout the city. Traffic jams, snarls, exhaustion, frustrations, tempers running high with every single road user wanting to use the road without minding about the inconvenience he/she is causing his fellow civilians. Who cares! But then what else the Police can do? They do not do anything, they are doomed, they do something, even then they are. They are hapless and so they want us to sail in the same boat. Ultimately the ordinary people are caught between the devil and the deep sea, with the need to travel to their destinations on one side and with the roads blocked thoroughly on the other.

It reminds me of the resolution passed sometime back by the Osmania University Board, recommending the closure of the University road to the road users. What an idea sirji! Today the Osmania University Road is not just its internal road, it is a good connecting road between one part of the city to the other. They may be right in claiming that the road is becoming too much burdened with the traffic and so they want to clean up their premises. How impractical and irrational it would be, to deny access to the university road, I dread to imagine. Then this thought comes to my mind. You may call the idea height of stupidity, but I need to reveal it here. Why can't a more spacious land be given to the University so that the present place could be used for letting out to corporate companies? When airports, hospitals, jails and markets even dharna chowks could be relocated, why not university? Just think about it. Already there is so much of choking due to traffic on the existing roads. Imagine if the university road is denied access, what would be the travail of the city road users? So definitely it shouldn't be a bad idea to relocate the university to a vast sub-urban area so that they can plan the institution keeping centuries ahead in mind. Just give a thought and write your feedback.