Traffic goes haywire as city celebrates New Year
The Hindu
Crowd at shopping malls and tourist places also
A 3.4-km drive on SP Road took 11 minutes at 6 p.m. on Friday. A 9-km drive between Banjara Hills and Madhapur took 31 minutes. At 6:54 p.m., the Hyderabad Traffic Police put out a message: “Slow movement of traffic from St Ann’s School, North Zone, YMCA X road, SBH X Roads towards Paradise X Roads.”
In the southern parts of the city, traffic flow was reduced to a crawl from Banjara Hills towards Masab Tank, from Toli Chowki towards Hydershakote, and Bahadurpura area.
Traffic went haywire on Friday evening as citizens prepared to celebrate New Year. It was not just every private vehicle on the road, there were throngs of people at shopping malls and tourist places.
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