An average of 446 people, roughly the capacity of eight buses, were stuck on a single flyover at any given time, according to urban transport expert Prashanth Kumar Bachu, who spoke at a session on Sunday (June 8, 2025). Citing the Begumpet flyover as a case in point, he argued that such infrastructure projects merely relocate congestion rather than resolve it.
“Flyovers are not symbols of development,” he said. “They are responses to induced demand, built primarily to accommodate the growing number of private vehicles.” He warned that this approach does little to ease traffic and instead intensifies urban mobility issues.
