If cab drivers were complaining of back problems, private vehicles owners are raising concerns over maintenance of the vehicles.
All through, dug up or potholed roads welcome commuters. Beginning from software professionals to city bus drivers, people are having a torrid time in plying on the city roads."On an average, I travel 300 km a day dropping the employees at the nook and cranny of the city. Road conditions at many places including areas like Jubilee Hills are worst. It is not only making us leave the employees late at the office but also affecting our backs," says Mohd. Ayub Khan, a call-centre cab driver.
If cab drivers were complaining of back problems, private vehicles owners are raising concerns over maintenance of the vehicles.
"In the last couple of years, I was forced to change the radiators and air-condition valves of my car twice due to dirt accumulation and not to say of the bills. I am from Bangalore and it is the same problem there also, but things are organised very well there, unlike Hyderabad," fumes K. Aparna Reddy, a software professional.
When the bad road conditions from Gudimalkapur to Padmaraonagar and Banjara Hills to Vanasthalipuram are causing all sorts of inconvenience, traffic jam on the main and well-laid roads is adding to the woes of commuters.
And no one would have a better say than a city bus driver. "If plying through the potholed roads was a task, then the traffic jam on the main roads is nothing but rubbing salt into the wounds. We cannot blame the people for that, if the lanes and roads in the colonies were good most of them would prefer passing through the colonies. Due to traffic jam it is not only the passengers who suffer but we too, as our frequency time will be affected," says T. Madhar, a city bus driver. - The Hindu
