City residents experienced a harrowing time with traffic jams that tested their patience on Sunday and Monday.
The traffic jam spread from Kukatpally to Madhapur, thanks to the Lulu Group, a UAE-based retailer, that unveiled its first shopping mall in Hyderabad recently. It drew an overwhelming response from the city’s residents but the surge in footfall not only created a congestion nightmare within the mall but also spilled onto the surrounding roads.
Five years ago, in 2018, Hyderabad encountered a similar situation when about 40,000 people stormed Swedish furniture-maker IKEA’s debut store in India.
