Lockdown Fear Force People to Go Homes, Traffic Jam at Highways & Toll Plazas

A huge traffic jam was observed at the different traffic check posts and toll plazas on highways around the city. After the news speculation, there will be lockdown in the greater Hyderabad soon. People have started to reach their native places from Hyderabad. Several hundred numbers of vehicles could be spotted near the checkpoints and toll plazas.

 A long queue of vehicles stretching at more than 2 kilometers from the several check posts is seen. Panthangi and Korlapahad are the toll plazas where a maximum traffic jam was reported.

 Panthangi toll plaza on National Highway 65 witnessed traffic jams on Wednesday, stretching over a kilometer as hundreds of people started leaving Hyderabad for their native places in Andhra Pradesh amid concerns of a 15-day lockdown in the Hyderabad limits.

Traffic jams on NH 65 have been constant for more than two days, with several mini-trucks loaded with household goods passing through the toll plaza, indicating that people had left their rented homes in Hyderabad and were moving to their native places.

According to toll plaza officials, numbers went up to 28,000 in the last 24 hours instead of 18,000 vehicles pass through the toll plaza daily, but the. The toll plaza at Gundur on Hyderabad-Warangal road also witnessed a huge rush of vehicles during the day.

hundreds of vehicles have lined up at Korlapahad plazas where maximum traffic jam was reported.

At the Same Time, hundreds of vehicles lined up on the Garikapadu check-post since Andhra Pradesh police were allowing people, who had been received passes through the Spandana app, into the State only after conducting thermal screening.

According to the officials, 90 percent of the individuals who reached the check post had e-passes. The officials were assisting those who had not obtained e-pass to register on the app for e-pass and letting them into AP after approval.

The Telangana police were also allowing people into the State at the AP-TS border check-post near Ramapuram crossroad after collecting their Aaadhar card number and thermal screening. Suryapet District Collector T Vinay Krishna Reddy inspected the border check-post at Ramapuram and made several suggestions to the officials for the hassle-free flow of vehicles.