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Hyderabad doesn’t need flyovers at the cost of trees. We don’t want to become like Delhi

The Supreme Court has stayed tree felling for H-CITI flyovers near KBR Park. We need more infrastructure, but we also need to keep Hyderabad a breathable and liveable city.

Anytime someone compares Indian metro cities, people from Hyderabad now have two major flexes — “We can at least breathe our air, unlike Delhi,” and “Our traffic is still better than Bengaluru’s”.  It is true, though. Having been to both Delhi and Bengaluru, I would say, as objectively as I can, that I still prefer my city over both, majorly because the lower pollution means I can breathe here.

Hyderabad has never been as green as Bengaluru, but our city is still more liveable because traffic is comparatively manageable. And the Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (KBR) National Park in Jubilee Hills has, over the years, become one of the biggest places of comfort for thousands of people who go there every morning for some fresh air.

Sadly, that bliss came under threat a few weeks ago, when the Congress government in Telangana decided that it needed to construct new flyovers under the H-CITI project, connecting the Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills areas to the IT corridor around HITEC City. The result was........

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