Narrow James Street creates traffic chaos

HYDERABAD: James Street, one of the busy business and shopping areas in Secunderabad, attracts tens of thousands of people everyday and it results in constant traffic problem.
A problem that neither the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad nor the traffic police have been able to solve.
Stretching less than half a kilometre, James Street, an arterial road, begins at the railway bridge at Ranigunj and ends near the Mahatma Gandhi statue on MG Road.
Most of the RTC buses between Secunderabad-Nampally, Abids, Koti and Charminar pass through James Street. The road is 40 feet wide at both the sides between Ranigunj and Paradise. But when it comes to James Street its width is 30 feet on Ranigunj-Paradise side and between 20 & 30 feet on Paradise-Ranigunj side.
In addition to this, people park two and four-wheelers on the road because neither there is scope to create a footpath nor there is a parking facility. Several electricity transformers and shops are located close to the road.
The Ramgopalpet police station building too allegedly adds troubles to traffic flow because it practically begins on the road.
There is a junction in front of the police station adding one more road (Subhash Road). At this busy junction, neither a traffic signal is erected nor the police are present.