Bus stops upon IRR

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TROFF'S FRONT COVER PAGE

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utterly wrong practices in solid waste management

The first eighteen figures in the collage above give a 'picture account' of present day solid waste management. Unless every stage of this activity is modified or removed, as long as this system is encouraged, the city and its surroundings will become increasingly dirtier and dirtier. Troff presents a totally different system of solid waste management in which every citizen has a role to play, a system which can also enlist the city bus services to transport a part of the solid waste that gets generated every day.

MODIFICATIONS TO CITY BUS

This figure depicts the various modifications required to enable the existing city buses to 'comfortably' and safely transport more numbers of commuters who are required to travel standing. Presently city buses are 'super-jam packed' during peak hours with 250 or more commuters being transported under 'worse than hellish conditions'! Of the 250 commuters, only 44 travel seated; the rest of them have to travel under immense inconvenience. Standing erect is impossible; keeping your feet in a comfortable position is impossible...just place each of your feet wherever any space on the floor of the bus is available, you have to twist your body at various levels...at the waist [to avoid being crushed by the college bag being carried by a student beside you], at the neck to allow your 'neighbour' to stretch out his hand and take hold of the rod above. Movements of the bus while turning or changing speeds ad to your pressures...you have to exert every sinew of yours just to maintain your contorted posture. Believe me, I am not exagerating. The suffering and torture involved in traveling [standing] in an overcrowded city bus cannot be described in words...one has to personally experience this agony to understand what I am stating. I have seen a lady who had this complaint of her right shoulder getting dislocated. She told me that it was the first time it happened to her, was very painful, and she had to struggle to shove back her right limb back into the joint. Without her telling me I questioned her whether it occured in a bus. She said yes. This lady is now unable to lift even a pail of water...her limb gets pulled out of her shoulder joint.

This is the punishment commuters who are standing within the bus are being subjected to. In comparison, I feel that the suffering faced by those commuters who stand traveling upon the footboard is nil...they are no doubt traveling in a dangerous way but not in a painful way. If I have no other choice, I would prefer traveling in a painful way rather than in a dangerous way and I would prefer to walk a thousand miles rather than travel for one mile in this painful manner!

Bus travel, Troff or no Troff, has to be immediately rendered safe and comfortable. The modifications to the existing buses as depicted in the figure above along with other proposals given under Troff's document, have it in them the potential to render bus travel safe and comfortable.

ROBS-3: REJUVENATION OF BUS SERVICES, PLAN

This is the smallest but most important of the figures given and it is essential for the reader to read and understand the matter written in the TROFF document regarding this figure.

COLLAGE OF IRR AND RTR ROUTE MAPS

This collage contains vast details of the IRR and the 15 RTR routes. For convenience of study, I have posted individual figures of all of the 8 figures of the collage in view.

IRR

Let me give the earlier write up I have given about the IRR:

CHAPTER I: INNER RING ROAD, BUS ROUTES

The inner ring road [IRR] was only briefly touched upon in the first module. We shall now sharpen our focus upon the IRR. As mentioned earlier, this IRR does not correspond to that being worked upon by the GHMC. It almost closely follows the railway tracks in the centre of the city which connect the railway stations Nampally, Secunderabad and Kacheguda. The figures shown in ROBS-2, 1 to 9 contain details of the IRR. The IRR is depicted as a dark blue line in these figures.

Because of road width constraints, traffic moving in opposite directions along the IRR route has to diverge at certain sections.

Let us now see the route taken by the traffic moving along the IRR in the clockwise fashion.

Starting from Nampally, the traffic proceeds along the Public Garden road towards Lakdi-ka-pul, Khairatabad, Punjagutta, Ameerpet, Begumpet, Shyamlal, Paradise, Patny bus stop and then on to the Secunderabad YMCA junction. There it turns right and then turns left at the clock tower to enter the SD road. At Sangeeth junction it turns right towards Rathfile i.e. Secunderabad station. From Rathfile the traffic proceeds towards Chilakalaguda X roads where it takes a right turn to enter the Boyiguda road and goes along the Mushirabad, Chikadpally

and Narayanaguda main roads to reach the Maheshwari theatre crossroads. There it turns left to enter the Kacheguda station road to reach the Kacheguda Railway station. From there the traffic proceeds towards the Chaderghat crossroads where it travels straight along the Maulvi Aladdin road. Passing through Ranga Mahal it turns left to reach Afzalgunj, passing by the Gowliguda bus depot. From Afzalgunj the traffic reaches the Zambagh crossroads after passing along the Siddiamber Bazaar main road. From here the traffic proceeds along the Nizam Shahi and Mukhram Jahi roads to enter the Public Garden road. Traveling on this road it reaches its starting point...the Nampally station. The ring is now complete for traffic moving in the clockwise direction upon the IRR.

Let us now see how the traffic moves in the anticlockwise direction upon the IRR. Starting from Nampally station, it proceeds towards Mozamjahi Market crossroads where it turns right to enter the Siddiamber Bazaar main road. After reaching Afzalgunj the traffic proceeds towards Chaderghat crossroads passing by Gowliguda bus depot. From there the traffic proceeds towards Maheshwari theatre crossroads after passing through Kacheguda Railway station. Here it turns right and proceeds towards Chikadpally and Mushirabad. Passing beneath the Oliphant tunnel it turns left to reach the Secunderabad station. Here it turns right to reach the clock tower island via St. Mary’s Road. At the clock tower roundabout it turns right and then turns left to reach the YMCA crossroads. At the crossroads it turns left to enter the SP road. It travels along this road to touch Patny, Paradise, Shyamlal, and Begumpet bus stops to reach the Greenlands junction. Here it turns right and proceeds upon this IRR stretch of road to reach Punjagutta crossroads via Ameerpet. At Punjagutta crossroads the traffic proceeds straight towards Khairatabad. From there it goes straight towards the Gurudwara junction, Lakdi-ka-pul. Here it turns left towards Dwaraka Hotel from where it reaches the Ravindra Bharati crossroads. Here it turns right towards the Police Control Office crossroads from where it goes straight towards Nampally station along the Public Garden road. The ring is complete for traffic moving in the anticlockwise direction along the IRR.

From the description given of the routes taken by the traffic traveling in opposite directions upon the IRR, it should be observed that there are three places where these two sections of traffic diverge. The first place of divergence is at Lakdi-ka-pul. ROBS-2, figures 6 and 7 show this place of divergence. The second place where the divergence occurs is between Rathfile junction at Secunderabad station and the roundabout at the clock tower. ROBS-2, fig 3 shows this place of divergence. The third place where the clockwise and anticlockwise traffic diverge from one another is at the Afzalgunj bus stop. ROBS-2, fig 5 shows this place of divergence.

It should be observed that all the routes taken by the traffic moving in either the clockwise or anticlockwise direction upon the IRR are upon existing bus routes, very busy routes at that. It has been pointed out in an earlier article that a huge chunk of city bus routes [? 70%] are centered at Secunderabad railway station. Nampally station also is the originating point for a minor chunk of city bus routes. A few bus routes start out from Kacheguda station. Thus the IRR connects all the three long distance train stations of Secunderabad, Hyderabad and Kacheguda. These stations are also MMTS stations. Other MMTS stations such as Lakdi-ka-pul, Khairatabad and Begumpet are also serviced by the IRR. Important educational institutions, government offices, wholesale markets, shopping centers, sports and recreation centers, theatres and spots of tourist interest, all located in the heart of the twin cities, are all serviced by the IRR. Buses plying upon the IRR will definitely not run empty.

This matter has been written for ROBS-2. Some concepts may have been changed at the present moment of time.