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13 metres across.
HITEC City–Kukatpally Main Road, APHB Colony. The other side is 13 m away, and there is no way across. Take the wheel for the detour we drove on 1 Nov 2026, on its real clock.
The other side is 13 m away, across the median.
Illustration, not a design: distances are measured on this drawing. The road owner is Cyberabad Municipal Corporation; signals are with the traffic police.
Same equation as Night glare (CIE 146:2002): two high beams of 30,000 cd each, seen from the driver's seat. An illustration, not a measurement of this road.
What could fix this
Five options from road guidance in India and abroad, each drawn on this street with its trade-off. They are illustrations to make the choice concrete, not designs; the road owner decides.
The shortcut against traffic
Across India, police recorded wrong-side driving as the third-largest cause of road deaths in 2023, about 5.5% of them (MoRTH). Field studies of wrong-way crash sites find most of it is deliberate, mostly on two- and three-wheelers, to save distance, and a far U-turn is one of the things that makes it feel easier. Every fix above shortens the legal way across, which is the part the road owner controls. arcroad does not count wrong-way riding at this place or link any crash to it. The studies
What we measured here
How this is built, and its limits
The distances and the clock are from our drive on 1 Nov 2026: one driver, one car, phone GPS once a second (about ±50 m). The clock runs in the real time of that pass, replayed faster. Where the car slows and stops along the way is illustrated; the total time is what we measured. Another day, or another hour, will differ.
The road is drawn straight and to scale in length; the real road bends a little and its exact U-turn points may sit a little nearer or further. The vehicles, buildings and trees are made up for illustration, and the traffic is drawn to match the average speed we measured on each pass (about 29 km/h one way, 8 km/h the other). No photo, person or number plate from the drive appears here.
Day and Night redraw the same road and the same drive; the lights, lit windows and vehicles are made up, and the clock does not change. High-beam glare is computed with the published disability-glare equation used on Night glare. Choosing another place opens the same ride for that place; only places we have driven can be chosen.
The monthly figures assume one crossing each way on every working day (22 days) and use the cost calculator's own figures: petrol at ₹116.15/L (Hyderabad, 16 Oct 2026), 50 km/L for a two-wheeler and 16 km/L for a car. They count fuel only. This page says nothing about walking: arcroad measures driving.