🐃 Buffaloes blocking the main road every evening in Nacharam

Every evening around 6:30, just when people are heading home, 5 or 6 buffaloes plant themselves on the road. This is near my colony in Nacharam. Cars slow to walking pace and bikes squeeze through any gap. The owner is never around until much later. Two lanes, completely blocked, and nobody is in a hurry. I've lived here almost 4 years and this only became regular in the last 6 months. Before that it was maybe 1 or 2 stray cows near the garbage bins, never a whole herd. Last week I nearly missed picking up my daughter from tuition because the road was shut for 15 minutes. The auto I was in had to reverse and take a lane barely wide enough for one vehicle. The driver said it happens almost daily now and he plans his route around it. Someone told me a small dairy nearby lets the cattle roam loose in the evening after milking. I can't confirm that. It might just be a guess that people keep repeating. A GHMC cattle van drove past once a few months ago and didn't even stop. The same buffaloes were back the next evening like nothing had happened. What gets me is that nobody complains. We adjust, like we do around potholes or a dead streetlight. I don't want to sound harsh about the animals or whoever owns them. I like buffaloes fine. I just want to know if an area can get this sorted through a complaint. Or does it become part of daily life here for good? Has anyone got it fixed anywhere?

I filed a complaint through the My GHMC app about stray cattle near Uppal last year. Didn't expect much, but a van came within 4 days and the problem eased for a couple of months. Then it slowly crept back, as these things do. Still better than waiting for a random patrol. Worth a try with a photo and the exact stretch of road, maybe from a few of you together.

I doubt it is really just one dairy setup causing all of it, more likely a few different owners letting cattle loose once their work for the day is done, since I have noticed different coloured buffaloes near my area depending on the week. At least that is what a shopkeeper near my house told me when I asked him the same question a while back.

That van driving past without stopping sounds exactly like what happened near my house a few months ago. Two cows sat right at the turning for almost an hour, a GHMC vehicle slowed down, looked, and just moved on.

Ha, the auto driver planning his route around them. My regular driver near Habsiguda does the same now, takes the longer road most evenings after six. I thought he was being too careful until I saw the herd myself, blocking almost the whole junction. Quietly going around it seems to be everyone's answer here.