Is the IIIT junction the next Cyber Towers ( as a bottleneck)?

The IIIT junction at Gachibowli never used to have heavy traffic earlier. But as the number of companies at Gachibowli and Manikonda increased, the inevitable increase in vehicles has occurred. Now the road width in front of ISB/Infosys has been increased and this was something I had envisaged a long time ago; if you see the amount of construction taking place in Manikonda then you just need to connect the dots to realize that the traffic too will increase.
Looking at the wide roads, traffic jams should ideally not occur at the IIIT junction. But, anyone who drives on that particular road would have noticed the increased waiting time, even when you have to turn left. Main culprits are the autos that have started stopping on the left hand side (in front of the IDBI college), the cars that stop beside the cigarette shops about 50 meters before the junction and, suprisingly, the traffic police. The constables turn a blind eye towards the autos and cars that block the left lane and on being questioned about their lack of action on this, actually shout at you for daring to question them. At Cyber Towers, this was not the case because whenever a constable used to be stationed at the junction, he used to make sure that the left lane was kept free.
The autos have complete disregard for traffic rules and it is very irritating to see them cause traffic jams while trying to jump red signals. How they manage to ride around with such confidence is beyond me.
All its gonna take for this junction to be jam free is for road users to follow these basic rules:

1. Maintain lane discipline
2. Respect pedestrians
3. Don't jump signals

The road from the IIIT junction towards Manikonda also witnesses NEEDLESS jams and shamefully it is the educated professional who usually causes the traffic jam. There may be a temporary break in traffic flow because of a truck that's stuck or some minor road work that's going on; as a response, all you need to dois to slow down and maintain lane discpline. You will only be late by 5-10 minutes. Instead, I have noticed car and auto drivers crossing over on to the right hand side of the road and merrily drive on. This causes a much bigger traffic jam and should be avoided at all costs. Stick to your side, slow down and things will clear up. But who's gonna listen to me?

Road from JNTU to Cyber Towers is now open to traffic

I received this piece of information today, so I thought of posting it on this blog. The road from JNTU to Cyber Towers is now open to traffic. I think it had been closed because of the work going on the flyover.

I haven't checked this on my own and would appreciate if somebody could confirm if this is true by leaving a comment.

Meeting Summary: Plan of action

Click on this image to get a brief understanding of what we're planning to do:

In addition to folks from our office, SumTotal Systems, we also had Major Shiva Kiran, from Sukuki Gensys, join in.

Plan of action:
1. Get help of the Police to move autos from the corner in front of Shilparam to a little further ahead.
2. Create an Auto Stand in front of Wipro that will be used for a drop-pick up point for people from CT. No autos to be allowed to stop in front of CT.
3. Paint zebra crossings and lanes on all 4 roads. The colour should be something other than white, preferably fluorescent orange- so that there is immediate impact for people who see it (something different always gets noticed).
4. Get a sign board on the arch next to Wipro which will say something like " Change lanes here to turn left at CT junction".
5. Get CT to allow us to put up banners along their wall.
6. Proposed names for this initiative(pick from these or ask folks to come up with more names):

• Left Lane Free!
• Free the Left Lane!
• Right is Right!
• And I just came up with this(in keeping with techiegiri): Left Outer Join!

7. Logo still to be decided. Once points 5 and 6 are decided, T shirts to be printed.
8. Rope in a radio station in this initiative and if possible, get an article into the papers.
9. Once, we're set with this, volunteers to stand at CT on weekdays from 930 to 1030am and 6pm to 7pm, extending back up to 50-100 metres.


Action item owners: 1,2,3,4 and 5 Primary Owner: Balaji. Folks to assist Balaji: Gautam, Uttam, Nikhil and Raghav.
6 and 7: Primary Owner: Shivaram. Folks to assist Shivaram: Sameer, Sujit and Vikas
8 : Primary Owner: Lekha. Folks to assist Lekha: Sameer, Sandeep

Timelines:
Click on the image to view the tentative project plan.