Vehicles parked on the road prevent the movement of traffic in the Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: Siddhant Thakur
Once the western part of Hyderabad was gradually converted into commercial hotspot, now the café, salons, boutique shops and top restaurants have gradually turned into commercial hotspot, now teeming with cafes, salons, boutiques. There are 13 luxury cafes on one section of the road on the film film. This commercial boom, however, brought chronic urban headache – parked vehicles spilling on the streets, choked arterial roads and converted short rides into gridlocked slogs.
For most of these businesses around the jubilee hills and Banjar Hills, the designed parking spaces are left to take care of themselves, often leaving their cars parked along the narrow stripes. The result is known to anyone who has tried to navigate the Roads 36 or 45 – Chaos, Honking and Painful Walking through the weekend.
The road safety expert Kanumula says that this problem stems from how commercial licenses are awarded. “If you are building a commercial property of 20,000 square feet, you have to provide a certain amount of parking space. But thanks to corruption, employment certificates are distributed without verifying these requirements. It also happens in government offices,” he says. “Now West Hyderabad, once mostly residential, is rented for commercial use. Businesses either rent private land for parking with a valet or worse, let the customers park on the road.”
Commuting bears the onslaught. M. Bhavan, the daily commute, who works in Filmnagar, says: “Just browsing a section near the cafes has become the task. People leave their vehicles half on the road and half on the sidewalk.
Ravi Teja, a software professional from RTC X Roads, adds: “Now I avoid receiving shortcuts via Jubilee Hills completely. Finally, you take three detours because some café decided to host a live music night with zero parking space.”
Experts also point to the absence of intelligent cities. Professor Hyderabad Km Lakshman Rao notes that cities like Hyderab suffer from a “lack of online monitoring”. “Shops should be spatially fenced, so they are forced to take into account customer parking. Why are the sellers parked along sidewalks, but not for customers? There should be an obligation for the seller to ensure that parking is available and must be monitored using computer vision technology,” he said. ”
Farzana Ahmed, a long -term resident on road no.
While G Senior Officer in the Transport Wing said: “We check the available parking before we provide our permission and recommend that the equipment to ensure parking in the same spaces. Some use neighboring empty land. We took a night patrol, especially on roads 45 and 36.”
The uncontrolled growth of commercial activity associated with weak enforcement and small predictivity left the western Hyderabad corridors in the eternal state of Gridck.
Published – June 13, 2025 21:23
