Secunderabad’s roads turned into a maze of honking vehicles and frustrated commuters on Thursday as road closures and diversions for the construction of the Paradise–Dairy Farm Road elevated corridor on NH-44 came into effect. The first day of the nine-month closure tested tempers and patience alike, with confusion reigning at key junctions and traffic crawling through the city’s northern stretches.

At Balamrai, about 800 metres after the Tadbund Junction, the closure of the 700-metre stretch connecting to the Rajiv Gandhi Statue, a vital link between northern and central Hyderabad, caught many motorists off guard.

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