💬 Flyover diversion near Uppal is wrecking our mornings

The new flyover work near Uppal started a diversion about a month ago. Traffic now goes through a narrow residential lane that was never made for this many vehicles. Every morning around 8:30 the lane is jammed from end to end with cars and bikes. The diversion now adds 25 minutes to my ride to work, and I leave earlier each week. The worst spot is the junction where the diverted traffic joins the main road again. There's no traffic police most mornings, so everyone just squeezes in however they can. Yesterday I watched an auto and a school bus stare at each other for 2 full minutes. Nobody moved until a scooter pushed through the gap and everything came loose at once. The people living on that lane have it worse than me. Their quiet street is now a highway. There's dust all day and the noise starts early. Some of them have put up handwritten signs. One sign says kids play here, please go slow. Hardly anyone slows down, I noticed. A woman outside her house told me she wipes the window sill twice a day now. I asked a supervisor at the site when it will be done and he said 6 to 8 months. He said it the way you answer when you're tired of being asked the same question. So we need a plan, because hoping it ends soon isn't going to work for us. If anyone has got traffic police posted at a temporary diversion, please tell me who you wrote to and how long it took.

I drove through a flyover diversion near Kukatpally a while ago, and it felt very different. They had temporary speed bumps and bright reflective signs all along the residential part. It was still slow, but it felt safer, and the people living there seemed calmer. You could mention that example in your letter as what a diversion should look like.

Ann's point about the gravel on the road needs its own complaint, separate from the traffic one. Stones and mud on an open road are usually something the site office has to clear. So you could also write to the site office directly and mention the fall. It might move faster than waiting for the traffic side to deal with everything.

A two wheeler skidded and fell at that same merge point last week from what a neighbor told me, apparently loose gravel from the construction side had spilled onto the main lane and nobody had cleared it. No major injury thankfully, but it does make the whole traffic police request feel a lot more urgent than just a general inconvenience complaint at this point.

Between techbhai's DCP letter approach and Asim's point about the dust, feels like there are two separate, fairly actionable complaints buried in this thread, traffic management at the merge point and basic dust and noise mitigation for residents along the diversion. Might be worth splitting those into two focused letters instead of one general complaint covering everything at once.

I stopped using that stretch at peak hours and take a longer road through another area.

Some disruption is normal with a flyover, nobody here is arguing against building one. My issue is the route they picked, a narrow residential lane for all that traffic. A slightly longer but wider road might have been easier for everyone to live with. Maybe the planners had their reasons, but I don't think the people on that lane were asked.

The dust is terrible for anyone living on that road, and my relative's house is right there. They wipe the furniture twice a day, and still the white layer comes back by evening. Water sprinkling on the diversion road during dry days would help them a lot.

Techbhai's letter idea sounds worth trying, because the general line clearly isn't working for this diversion. It's been running for a month now with nobody standing at that merge point.

We got a traffic cop at a similar merge point last year, after a few of us wrote a letter. We sent it to the traffic office for our zone instead of using the general complaint line. We mentioned the time of the jam and attached a short video from a peak morning. It took around 2 weeks, but the earlier complaints had got nowhere for months.

That six to eight month estimate from the site supervisor sounds optimistic. I have seen a couple of other flyover projects in the city drag on well past their original timeline once actual construction delays or fund release issues show up midway. Would not be surprised if this diversion situation ends up being closer to a year in practice rather than the estimate given.

Those handwritten signs about children playing are what worry me most in your post. A quiet lane can change overnight into a road where drivers forget they're near houses. I've seen it on a diversion near my aunt's house, and the kids stopped playing outside.