Hyderabad · KBR Park · H-CITI

They call itPeople-First.

Hyderabad has built 40+ flyovers in a decade. Congestion has worsened every year. Now the government wants to build multi-level flyovers around KBR Park — using the same logic that has never worked.

G.O.Rt.No.125 · March 17, 2025

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What the Minister said

"H-CITI is future-ready, people-first and transparent in its progress."

— Minister Sridhar Babu Duddilla, @OffDSB

What the data shows

40+ flyovers built under SRDP since 2015. Hyderabad commuters now lose 123 hours a year to congestion — and the number keeps rising.

The pattern around KBR Park

More flyovers. More congestion. Same cycle. New acronym.

40+

Flyovers built in Hyderabad under SRDP. Congestion has increased every year since.

123 hrs

Hours lost by Hyderabad commuters to traffic every year — up from the previous year

₹7,032 Cr

Total H-CITI budget — spent on the same infrastructure logic that created the problem

Independent, publicly available traffic studies of this corridor before approving construction

Why flyovers don't work

The hidden cost that nobody is talking about

Flyovers shift congestion, they don't solve it. Every flyover moves the bottleneck from one junction to the next. Hyderabad has built 40+ flyovers under SRDP. Congestion has worsened every year.
The pillars make the road below narrower. Where flyovers are built, the supporting columns eat into the road beneath. In many cases the reduced width can no longer accommodate full-sized buses — the vehicles that carry the most people.
The compensation mechanism makes congestion worse. When land is acquired for road widening, owners receive TDR — Transfer of Development Rights — allowing them to build extra floors on their rebuilt property. Around KBR Park alone, 327 properties are affected. Each rebuilt taller structure brings more residents, more vehicles, more parking demand. The new road capacity gets absorbed within years. The road was widened. The congestion returned. Nothing changed except the addresses.
This is a governance problem, not an infrastructure gap. Cars parked illegally along this corridor already consume an entire lane of road capacity at peak hours. Enforcing existing no-parking rules costs nothing and recovers that capacity immediately — no construction, no acquisition, no crores spent.

From the official record

What the Telangana Gazette actually says

The land acquisition was gazetted on March 24, 2025 (Telangana Gazette No. 70-D, G.O.Rt.No.125). Four junctions surrounding KBR Park are affected — each proposed for road widening or multi-level flyover construction under H-CITI.

Junction	Properties Affected	Land (Sq. Yards)	District
Gulmohar Park to BHEL Junction via Tara Nagar (Road Widening + ROB)	227	33,375	Rangareddy
Jubilee Hills Check Post Junction (Multi-level Flyover)	47	12,175	Hyderabad
Mugdha Junction (Multi-level Flyover)	40	7,250	Hyderabad
Cancer Hospital Junction (Multi-level Flyover)	18	13,076	Hyderabad

The TDR cycle: Affected property owners receive Transfer of Development Rights — permission to build extra floors on their rebuilt structures. More floors mean more residents and more vehicles. The very compensation mechanism designed to make road widening acceptable is what ensures the congestion returns.

There is another way

What actually decongests cities

Cities comparable to Hyderabad in density and income have reduced congestion — not by building more roads, but by making existing roads work better. The tools are known. None require acquiring a single property.

Junction Redesign

Reconfigure signal timings, turning radii, and lane markings at all four junctions. Proven to reduce peak-hour delays by 20–40% at a fraction of flyover cost.

Dedicated Bus Lanes

A single bus carries 60–80 passengers. One dedicated bus lane on this corridor moves more people than two new flyover lanes — without displacing a single family.

Parking Enforcement

Illegal roadside parking on this corridor effectively removes one lane of road capacity. Enforcement — not construction — recovers that lane immediately and at zero cost.

Independent Traffic Study

No publicly available, independently reviewed study of this corridor exists. Before spending ₹7,032 crore, commission one — from a university, not a consultant who profits from construction.

We are asking for three things.

Before a single property is acquired or another tree is felled around KBR Park, these demands must be met.

🛑 Suspend the land acquisition 📋 Hold public hearings as required by law 🔬 Commission an independent traffic study