GHMC — street lighting

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Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500049

I stay at madinaguda hyderabad and use the roads mumbai highway, old mumbai highway, and manjeerapipeline road alwyn cross road to gacchibouli frequently. The street lights are not switched in some streches of these roads whenver we go onto the roads, on some days one stretch and on another day some other stretches of the roads. It appears that the organization/institution/company whatever it is, is trying to save money by saving electricity at the cost of well lighted up roads, which are a must for safe and easy travel in the city. I do not know what that body is. Is it a private body? Or a government body.

Poor street lighting prevalent in hyderabad except in hightech city main roads, jubilee hills and banjara hill roads. This is absolute discrmination. All areas should have good lighting. All areas of people pay taxes to the muncipal and government bodies. Why then discrimination?

Poor streetlighting causes the following
1. Vehicles use high beam lights since visibility is better with high beam lights. However, the vehicles on the oppsite side of the road face the situation of drivers being blinded by intense high beam lights.

2. This leads to accidents and also decreases the traffic flow. Decreases traffic carrying capacity of the roads. This results in congestion on the roads. Smooth traffic with reasonable speeds is enough in many cases to deconjest the roads. Keep the road surfaces smooth by ensuring the quality of the road building, designing and you will see the difference in conjestion.

3. The edges of the separating structure between two sides of the road is not visible due to poor lighting and causes accidents.

It is really a dauting task to drive in hyderabad. I have stayed in mumbai, ahmedabad, thane, bangalore, vadodara in india. The street lighting of lowest grade in hyderabad. Take any other city of the same size, in any other developing and developed countries, we will find much better situation. Ghmc, state governments have to fix these little things before taking up major projects as these cost very little and give lot of comfort to citigens