Traffic around KBR Park goes one-way with 10 U-turn points and 13 exits from August 18

As many as 15,321 passenger car units per hour (PCU/Hr) move through the Jubilee Hills Check Post during peak hours, making it the busiest of the major junctions around KBR Park. To tackle the gridlock, traffic around the park will be made one-way from Tuesday (August 18) as work begins on the ₹1,090-crore H-CITI project.

The corridor’s second busiest point is the KBR Park Entrance stretch, which handles 13,516 PCU/hr. Maharaja Agrasen Junction sees 10,356 PCU/hr, while Road No. 45 and Film Nagar handle 9,966 and 9,605 PCU/hr respectively. Even the Basavatarakam Cancer Hospital Junction sees 5,880 PCU/hr during peak periods.

Under H-CITI, seven steel flyovers and seven directional underpasses will be built at seven key junctions at an estimated cost of ₹1,090 crore. The project is expected to be completed in 24 months.

For commuters, however, the first change will not be a flyover or an underpass but a new one-way circulation around KBR Park.

From August 18, commuters will have to follow the designated direction of traffic, using marked lane-change and U-turn points instead of several of the existing turning movements. The traffic plan has identified 10 such points and 13 designated exits around the park.

The lane-change and U-turn points are located at TG Study Circle, BRS Bhavan, Omega Hospital, Jana Reddy, Apollo Cradle, Taj Mahal, Phoenix Building, Road No. 65, Mantri Towers and Cream Stone.

There are also designated exits towards Road No. 14, Nandi Nagar, Road No. 10 and Zaheer Nagar, New World, Agrasen Island and Road No. 12, Omega Hospital and Lotus Pond, TTD Temple Road, BVB Junction and Film Nagar, Journalist Colony, Road No. 45, Road No. 36 and Peddamma Temple, Annapurna Studio by-lane and NTR Bhavan. The arrangement is intended to keep vehicles moving around the park while construction is taken up at the junctions.

The H-CITI works have been divided into two packages. The first covers Jubilee Hills Check Post, KBR Park Entrance and Mughdha Junction.

At KBR Park Entrance, a 330-metre underpass and a 900-metre steel flyover are planned, while Mughdha Junction will get a 260-metre underpass.

Jubilee Hills Check Post will get three structures, including a 740-metre Y-shaped underpass and two steel flyovers measuring 745 metres and 770 metres.

The second package covers Road No. 45, Film Nagar, Maharaja Agrasen and Basavatarakam Cancer Hospital junctions. Four underpasses and four steel flyovers will be built at these locations to separate straight-moving traffic from turning traffic.

Hyderabad City Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar said the one-way plan was finalised after detailed traffic studies, two rounds of trial runs and consultations with the GHMC.

The police have also been consulting residents, morning walkers and resident welfare associations around KBR Park, with the traffic plan to be modified wherever necessary based on ground-level requirements.

According to Hyderabad Police Commissioner Sajjanar, the completed structures are expected to resolve traffic issues at several junctions and reduce bottlenecks at Jubilee Hills Check Post by about 80%. The project is also expected to cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions by reducing prolonged vehicle idling at signals.