I live in Hyderabad not too far from the flyovers and it was extremely saddening to get this news. I used to pass through the same area everyday to commute to work, and everytime I went anywhere near those flyovers instinct told me they were never safe. Begumpet is in the heart of the city, and the volume of traffic is just huge in that particular area. What made me feel exremelely unsafe were the following:
(01) There were absolutely no indications in some areas there was construction activity. I remember several motorists were injured over time when a huge hole was being dug for foundation of one of the pillars, and this caught the motorists unawares. The traffic police, the construction group and the Govt. should have taken adequate steps to prevent this.
(02) Given that there was absolute chaos with traffic in that area (and everywhere else in Hyd), there was just nobody to regulate anything. Basically there was construction material strewn all over the road, and huge construction equipment strewn all over the place.
(03) The way the traffic was regulated, people were forced to travel between and under the construction areas. One particular area was located at an extremely weird angle and had a narrow passageway for just one car - there were construction scaffolding on all other side. I thought manay a time that it would be an absolute disaster if someone hit the scaffolding there.
Clearly this is a case of negligence and the guilty should be severely punished
