🚧 They finally started fixing the road in Banjara Hills

Barricades showed up overnight on the main road in Banjara Hills a couple of weeks ago. I almost cheered. The stretch near the signal has had craters for over a year, and it got much worse after the last monsoon. I wrote 2 emails to the ward office last year, and a few neighbours called in complaints on the app. Nothing moved. Nobody even replied, apart from an automatic message saying it was received. Then a biker slipped near the signal and broke his wrist, and a clip of it went round our WhatsApp groups. Work started soon after. I don't know if that was the reason, but the timing felt too neat. It shouldn't take an accident to get a road fixed, but I'll take it. Small win. They've dug up about half the stretch and put down fresh gravel, so it's 1 lane each way for now. Peak hours are a mess. Autos and cars squeeze past each other, and last evening the jam reached the flyover. I'm hoping it's temporary while they lay the new surface. I just want it finished properly this time. Last time they did only 1 section near the junction and left the rest alone for 6 months. I'm still annoyed about that one, and I think about it whenever I pass that spot. The shopkeepers nearby keep asking each other when it'll be done. They have deliveries coming in and no space to park. If anyone has heard a completion date from the workers on site, please share it here. I asked a man in an orange vest yesterday and he said "soon". That could mean anything. I'll keep walking past it every single morning and report back here if anything changes.

Priya ji, we want sweets 😇 you followed up for so many months, this result is well deserved. Something similar is happening in our area too, the road is in the same state Banjara Hills used to be in, let's see when work starts there too. If GHMC realises that complaints make a difference, maybe more people will start writing in, otherwise everyone just sits quietly like this.

Congratulations, your patience finally paid off 😊 I was starting to think that stretch would stay broken forever. There are a few roads near me like that, never touched, and I've stopped expecting anything from them. It's good the pressure worked, even if it shouldn't have taken an accident and a viral clip. Hope they finish the whole road this time and don't leave half of it dug up again.