We're back on track!

Some of you may have noticed that we have started regulating the traffic again at CT junction. We have received the DCP's approval, which means that the Traffic Police will be (and is ) helping us out actively.

From the second week of September, I will get together with some people from other companies who have expressed an interest in doing something for the society and we may end up working on initiatives that are slightly bigger than this one. As always, if you're interested, please send me an email at sikhoya [ at] gmail [.] com .

The Police has expressed an interest in involving the IT companies in more campaigns and initiatives. We hope that we are able to help the Police (not just Traffic Police) in any which way that we can.

Initiative is on hold for a couple of weeks- here's why...

The DCP, Cyberabad (Traffic) Munni Swamy and Additional DCP Cyberabad (Traffic) Ashok Kumar met with us on Friday to discuss about this initiative. They said that it was a good initiative and that they would work with us to make it a success. Until they come up with a plan that encompasses what we have set out to achieve, we will keep this project on hold. With the unfortunate turn of events on Saturday night, we do not want to burden the Police with our initiative's needs for now.

The initiative has achieved some of its goals:

• People have started talking about traffic rules.
• The winds of change are slowly but surely gathering pace - folks from Microsoft, Oracle, etc want to collaborate with us and take this forward. A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT!!
• If given a chance, the person driving on the road can follow rules.

We will follow up with the police after a week and update this blog. If you have any ideas/suggestions or if you'd like to join in this initiative to make Hyderabad better, please email me at sikhoya [at] gmail [dot] com

I apologize if I am unable to respond immediately to your emails. I will have sporadic access to the internet so may not be able to update the blog regularly.

Peace!!

Raining heavily- please be careful!

Hello folks

It is raining heavily. The road in front of Ginger Court is flooded for about half a kilometer. The road opposite Cyber Gateway is flooded so badly that there is water flowing OVER the road divider. It isn't possible to go towards CT junction from Cyber Gateway.

We have informed the police about this.

Here are some snaps from in front of Cyber Gateway-

If you're turning left from Cyber Towers towards Kondapur....

There is another road that takes you to Kondapur without you having to go via CT. If you take the road opposite TCS and adjacent to the petrol pump, you will be able to bypass the jam at Cyber Towers. This road finally comes out near the Godrej CII building, just before the Satyam building near Jaybheri.

and.... they're off!!!

We started the initiative today. Most people appreciated it. Even the auto drivers understood that we're doing this to make driving in CT/Hyd better. Some folks did block the left lane, but we told them not to do it from tomorrow - let's hope they don't.

I hope all of you understand that we're doing this, not just for us, but for everyone. We want the traffic flow around CT to be streamlined and we want the office going crowd to realize that they are accountable for their driving.

We saw cars driven by executives from top companies breaking the law - cars stopped in the middle of the road so that the occupants could get off ... in the MIDDLE of the ROAD!! Would you forgive an educated person if he did this?

Cabs stopped in the middle of the road, autos stopped in front of Cyber Towers and caused traffic to choke. We hope that the people working in Cyber Towers, don't get off autos in front of their gate. They can get off the autos near Wipro or even after the autos have turned left at CT junction.

Of course some people did voice their disapproval of the initiative. They said that we were actually causing the traffic to pile up. I really don't see how that could be possible - after we left CT today, the traffic flow became slower and the left lane was NOT moving at all unless there was a green signal.

We're going to be there again in the evening and then again tomorrow morning. Volunteers are still needed- this initiative is not limited to SumTotal- they are just sponsoring it and most of the volunteers are from SumTotal. Folks from other companies can volunteer. So if you'd like to volunteer, please send me an email at sikhoya [at] gmail [dot] com

Wanted - volunteers.

Ola! (and that's all the Spanish I know. No hablo espanol!)

Yes, we have the Traffic Police's approval.
No, we don't have enough volunteers.... yet!

We need a minimum of 50 volunteers per week - 10 per day (morning and evening).
As of now we have 17 volunteers. The slated launch date is 21st Aug - Tuesday. I'm really hoping that we get more volunteers. You do want the traffic to get better, right?

Why don't you join in? Please send me an email on sikhoya [at] gmail [dot] com if you'd like to volunteer.

Well....

.... the tshirts have been printed, but we're yet to talk to the Traffic Police! :(
Hopefully, we should get the approval from the Police by tomorrow. If that happens, then by sometime next week, we can roll this initiative out.

Will keep you updated.