No Right Turn at T-Junctions of Hyderabad!

Signals at Traffic Junctions are a universal norm to discipline and regulate traffic and help pedestrians. In Hyderabad too over the years Signals have come up at all Junctions. Thanks to the Signals, traffic jams of the worst kind on these Crossroads have come to an end, and pedestrians are helped in crossing busy roads.

But of late signals at T-Junctions are being shut off in Hyderabad.   Barricades are being put up at T-Junctions to prevent Right Turns for traffic from either direction. It is claimed that this is being done to facilitate uninterrupted, halt-free movement for vehicles moving in straight directions. 

Traffic which has to take a Right Turn will have to move ahead at T-Junctions until they find a U-Turn; take a U-Turn by forcing themselves into the traffic ahead of them. In the process, they are stalling the free movement of straight-moving traffic in front of them and behind them. At such U-Turns, taking a U-Turn requires lots of talent requiring a very aggressive intrusion into the main traffic. Due to the closure of the NTR T-Junction of SP Road and Minister Road, the chaos at U-Turns adds to the unruly traffic of Hyderabad. And pedestrians at this T- Junction have no provision to cross the road anywhere nearby. The police manning this T-Junction and many others earlier; I am sure are being used elsewhere on some very important works.

Please do not find fault with this unusual decision of regulating traffic. Forget the inconvenience due to the closure of T-Junctions and the ‘No Right Turn’ boards and the extra distance you have to travel up to the U-Turns and the anarchy at these U-Turns… try to adjust and appreciate such wise decisions which are beyond the understanding of common men like me.