3 Alternate Routes from Malaysian Township circle to DLF Gachibowli

Usually I wake up early in the morning and start to office at 8AM from the apartment where I live. It takes hardly half an hour to reach DLF – Gachibowli (my workplace) from the bus stop. As we all know, getting into the bus at peak hours is not possible in major cities of India and the alternative to reach office in time is either, we need to have our own vehicle or get an auto-rickshaw which is available in every corner of the street.

Major problem in the city – Transport

The problems with the autos in Hyderabad are, until unless the auto is full of people, driver is not going to start his auto – we need to be patient enough and wait for people. Secondly, we need to sit beside the driver if backseat is full and bad part is ‘the auto drivers are so impatient and never care of how they drive because we’ll be protecting him as bodyguards in front‘. After we reach our destination with that horrible journey another surprise awaits from the auto driver, which is ‘he’ll be charging you extra if traffic on the street is more, saying that we spent a lot of time in the auto comfortably sitting and listening to the music played in it’.

Alternate route to office by a fat guy - Bicycle

 So, I decided to find alternate route to my office from the Malaysian Township circle to DLF. I’m little bit fat and to reduce my weight, thought of cycling and purchased a BSA-Hercules gear less bicycle and started to go to office by bicycle. The way to office is like, I need to bicycle an half a kilometre which is in an angle of 20 degrees high from the ground and it is so tough. Next half a kilometre is sloped down and it’s so relaxing that I don’t need to pedal. In such a manner, I need to pedal almost twelve to thirteen kilometres to reach office and it takes 50 minutes from Malaysian township. For a month I used my bicycle and again problem of traffic didn’t stop bothering me, I was unable to cross the junctions using bicycle and stopped using it, as it is tough to pedal elevated path for almost 6kms in the way.

Alternate route to office by a fat guy - RTC

There are frequent buses in the route of JNTU – VBIT for every half an hour and in peak time for every fifteen minutes. As I need to go to DLF – Tech Park from Malaysian township circle, I need to get down at Hitech city and need to take an auto to DLF.  So to avoid autos, I found an alternate route. There is a bus from JNTU – Mehidipatnam (126M) where we can get down at cross roads of Hitech - Gachibowli and get another bus to ‘IIIT – Hyderabad’ from where DLF is hardly 5 minutes’ walk. As 126M is not so frequent and coming back to home became tough in that route.

Alternate route to office by a fat guy - MMTS

The Multi Modal Transport System trains are convenient and cheap. Get a smart card and get rid of standing in lengthy queue for tickets. I planned to use MMTS facility available nearer to my place. It takes 10 minutes to Hitech station if we take an auto from Malaysian township circle and planned to get down at Lingampally railway station from where get an RTC bus. The journey time is approximately 45 minutes. As usual, I don’t want to use auto for transportation and started to use my bicycle to reach station and park it there. Every station has parking service for which they charge monthly and I return back in the same way by RTC bus-> MMTS-> bicycle to reach  my apartment.