Although the government has drawn up ambitious plans to give a fillip to the development of infrastructure in Khammam Municipal Corporation, several long-cherished demands of denizens for widening the main roads, removal of traffic obstructions and other development remains unfulfilled.
A solution to the traffic snarls in the three-town area, the business hub of the fast growing city, continues to elude denizens and visitors in the heart of the town.
Motorists, rickshaw-pullers and pedestrians continue to reel under severe ordeal due to the frequent closure of the middle railway gate near the railway station here.
Several wholesale and retail shops and famous temples are located in the three-town locality.
The vendors, buyers, daily labourers and students are the worst hit due to the regular traffic chaos at the railway gate.
Many trains, including goods trains, pass through the railway track situated on the busy Secunderabad-Vijayawada route of the South Central Railways.
A permanent solution to the daily traffic chaos at the middle railway gate lies in laying either a road overbridge or underbridge at the site, contended S. Uday Pratap, the president of the three-town protection committee.
The government should focus on the need-based development works first to remove the traffic bottlenecks, improve civic and road infrastructure in the town, he said.
The main road between the ZP Centre and Venkatagiri crossroads should be expanded to four-lanes to prevent the traffic congestion on the Wyra road and improve road connectivity between the new and old towns, demanded S. Suresh, a resident of Bank Colony.
The existing bus station situated in a cramped space should be shifted to some suitable site near Srinivasanagar or Prakashnagar, he suggested.
Unless the internal road network is improved, the ambitious proposals to build Outer Ring Road will not accrue any concrete benefit to the denizens of the town, he opined.
