Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries

jkrishnakj · 27th October 2020, 16:25

Offlate, I hear from many of my friends / colleagues who do Hyd - Blr that the timing is always above the 6 hours average, airport to airport, with sedate driving.

The same route, same roads and the same cars used to do this atleast 30 minutes ahead, about 5.5 hours until about 2018 end. I am wondering what has changed !. The Blr - Hyd side continues to stay around the 5.5 hour mark these days.

nagarjun · 29th October 2020, 00:52

Between Kurnool and Gooty the road has become quite bumpy with lots patches, broken top surface etc.

Also, in general the traffic has increased on this highway with lots of big trailer trucks due to the Kia plant.

These are my observations based on my regular Bangalore- Kurnool trips. Not sure if anything else is contributing to this in Hyderabad- Kurnool stretch.

sanchari · 29th October 2020, 22:47

Traffic has increased in the Hyderabad-Jadcherla/Mehboobnagar stretch too. On our way from HYD to BLR, we could make decent speeds only after Jedcherla due to lot of traffic. On the way back too, traffic increased after Jecherla.

I have also noticed more speed breakers on the HYD-BLR highway now. Earlier, there used to be more speed breakers in Karnataka and very less in AP. Now AP also has quite a few speed breakers.

FlashMustang · 1st November 2020, 19:42

I completed the Hyderabad to Bangalore drive as planned on October 28, 2020. Overall, it was a relatively smooth drive and I decided to take it easy with speeds of around 70 kmph to 80 kmph throughout the drive. We stopped roughly every 2 hours for about 10 minutes by the side of the road to stretch our legs, have water, and get refreshed. We were not too much bothered about the overall duration of the drive.

We started from Hi-tech City around 7:20 a.m. We reached Shamshabad ORR exit at 7:50 a.m. We too had about a 10 minute wait with only two toll lanes operational. Exited the toll booth around 8:00 a.m. Thereafter, there was a lot of vehicular traffic till Jadcherla. Roads were smooth, with well marked gaps in medians, but, the traffic made it a stressful drive.

We stopped at Food Pyramid for a late breakfast at around 9:45 a.m. Had a leisurely and a heavy breakfast stop for an hour. The place was well managed with Covid19 safety measures in place, with clean rest rooms. We resumed around 10:45 a.m.

Kurnool and beyond had a couple of diversions, and a number of potholed roads in general scattered throughout AP.

We refueled at BPCL COCO Gooty at 1:55 p.m.

We had planned for a lunch stop at Hotel Blue Moon Highway, but, unfortunately, it was not operational. We turned back for about a kilometer and made a quick stop at Hotel Mayura for lunch around 2:15 p.m. We resumed our drive at 2:45 p.m.

Thereafter, we continued driving towards Bangalore, with the 10 minute breaks every 2 hours.

Road conditions improved again upon entering Karnataka, and the roads were butter smooth.

We crossed Devanahalli toll plaza around 6:50 p.m., re-fueled again at G K Filling Station, and finally reached our hotel around 7:30 p.m.

The speed breakers didn't bother me too much, because I was anyways slowing down at the places where the gaps in medians were indicated by road signs.

So, excluding the breakfast, lunch, re-fueling, and rest stops, we had taken about 8.5 hours airport to airport.
Hoping to start earlier in the day for our return drive from Bangalore to Hyderabad on November 7, 2020.

ankan.m.blr · 5th November 2020, 11:47

Do we have 24/7 petrol bunks on the Blr-Hyd highway? Also, what is the speed limit on the Hyd ORR? Are there speed cams installed on this road?

ashis89 · 5th November 2020, 12:02

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Originally Posted by ankan.m.blr

Do we have 24/7 petrol bunks on the Blr-Hyd highway?

Yes, several fuel bunks are open 24*7, based on my observation when I went on this route late at night.

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Also, what is the speed limit on the Hyd ORR? Are there speed cams installed on this road?

100 kmph. A few places have speed cams while the cops set up temporary cameras at random locations, mostly during day time.

chakri400 · 10th December 2020, 09:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlashMustang

Hoping to start earlier in the day for our return drive from Bangalore to Hyderabad on November 7, 2020.

Did you make this trip back? I am planning BLR-HYD trip soon with family and we plan to carry our own food. One thing we cannot carry our own is a restroom

Any suggestions for good covid supported restroom place on the way?

ashis89 · 10th December 2020, 10:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by chakri400

Did you make this trip back? I am planning BLR-HYD trip soon with family and we plan to carry our own food. One thing we cannot carry our own is a restroom

Any suggestions for good covid supported restroom place on the way?

You can try restrooms at fuel bunks, especially big COCO ones or private ones such as Shell and Reliance. From my experience they're maintained well.

nagarjun · 10th December 2020, 10:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by chakri400

Did you make this trip back? I am planning BLR-HYD trip soon with family and we plan to carry our own food. One thing we cannot carry our own is a restroom

Any suggestions for good covid supported restroom place on the way?

After Bangalore, there is a Shell petrol pump near Chikballapur on the right side which has good rest rooms, it was opened just few days back. But you need to take a U-Turn.

Also there is a Cafe Coffee day near Gooty, just after the toll plaza and it has decent rest room.

After Kurnool, there are quite a few good food plazas available which have decent rest rooms.

FlashMustang · 10th December 2020, 11:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by chakri400

Did you make this trip back? I am planning BLR-HYD trip soon with family and we plan to carry our own food. One thing we cannot carry our own is a restroom

Any suggestions for good covid supported restroom place on the way?

Yes, we did. The return trip experience was very similar to our onward trip, so, I avoided posting it again here. We started from Bangalore by 4:45 a.m. and reached Hyderabad by 4:00 p.m.

Regarding rest rooms, we found the ones at Food Pyramid to be very well maintained.
https://g.page/Food-Pyramid-Highway-Restaurant?share

We had also stopped at this place, but, we regretted it.
https://goo.gl/maps/CAyuSuZGwhLmy8hH9

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Originally Posted by ashis89

You can try restrooms at fuel bunks, especially big COCO ones or private ones such as Shell and Reliance. From my experience they're maintained well.

Sound advice here. Would second this.
Here's a list I had compiled prior to the trip (these would be on the left side of the road when driving from Bangalore to Hyderabad). We did not stop at all of them, so, it's based on Google ratings of these places.

Cafe Coffee Day (https://goo.gl/maps/7jy7kRXi5RHqFdcn7)
Bharat Petroleum Ltd Ghar Dabha (https://goo.gl/maps/4amohQugqKhEhLbaA)
Café Coffee Day (https://goo.gl/maps/4rijr5fM8JKH3ddr8)
BP COCO - Dhone (https://goo.gl/maps/u5mwuANSGrG2F1Gx6)
Bharat Petroleum COCO (https://goo.gl/maps/uDpZ8dsATjAZcMPe7)

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Originally Posted by samkat1

I also found this list to be useful, though we did not try out all of these places personally.

From this list, avoid this place - https://goo.gl/maps/upXQH9gLxRq - this was the one we regretted stopping at.

Hope this helps. Cheers and safe driving!

chakri400 · 11th December 2020, 21:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlashMustang

Regarding rest rooms, we found the ones at Food Pyramid to be very well maintained.
https://g.page/Food-Pyramid-Highway-Restaurant?share

We had also stopped at this place, but, we regretted it.
https://goo.gl/maps/CAyuSuZGwhLmy8hH9

Hope this helps. Cheers and safe driving!

Quote:

Originally Posted by nagarjun

After Bangalore, there is a Shell petrol pump near Chikballapur on the right side which has good rest rooms, it was opened just few days back. But you need to take a U-Turn.

Also there is a Cafe Coffee day near Gooty, just after the toll plaza and it has decent rest room.

After Kurnool, there are quite a few good food plazas available which have decent rest rooms.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashis89

You can try restrooms at fuel bunks, especially big COCO ones or private ones such as Shell and Reliance. From my experience they're maintained well.

Thank you all for sharing this useful information. I will update my experience post the trip

sanchari · 16th December 2020, 10:18

We will be travelling HYD-BLR next week. How do we identify company owned petrol bunks? Typically the company owned ones have better restrooms in my experience.

While travelling BLR-HYD, we had stopped at a BP petrol bunk. While it was clean, it didn't have western commodes which would have helped my aged parents, only the Indian squatting types. So trying to make sure if I can find decent clean restrooms with western commodes along the way.

samkat1 · 16th December 2020, 10:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by sanchari

We will be travelling HYD-BLR next week. How do we identify company owned petrol bunks? Typically the company owned ones have better restrooms in my experience.

Check these...

https://goo.gl/maps/uCkEuzw9irAjPRat6
https://goo.gl/maps/o2s1dHmeyYxFQ7jC9
https://goo.gl/maps/AxonYPGt7PJz8sHN6
https://goo.gl/maps/k2AD7Uu9YBoLSVpX7
https://goo.gl/maps/psTAGbvqY5dVQqfn8

FlashMustang · 16th December 2020, 12:36

Adding a few more company owned fuel outlets.
Not sure if they have western style water closets though.

https://goo.gl/maps/16XsHeUvp2hcugik9

https://goo.gl/maps/1n63KX2g8kzZ1JwUA

https://goo.gl/maps/TfKwksnf8TiW2MyUA

https://goo.gl/maps/G4KSttv8UdrgQpsDA

ranjitkodali · 18th December 2020, 15:12

Based on everyone's inputs

BLR to HYD Trip COCOs:

BP Chikballapur COCO
Bharat Petroleum, Manavpad - Kurnool
COCO THIMMAPUR Indian Oil Fuel Station

27th October 2020, 16:25	#1681
jkrishnakj Senior - BHPian Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,667 Thanked: 4,139 Times	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries Offlate, I hear from many of my friends / colleagues who do Hyd - Blr that the timing is always above the 6 hours average, airport to airport, with sedate driving. The same route, same roads and the same cars used to do this atleast 30 minutes ahead, about 5.5 hours until about 2018 end. I am wondering what has changed !. The Blr - Hyd side continues to stay around the 5.5 hour mark these days.
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29th October 2020, 00:52	#1682
nagarjun BHPian Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Bangalore Posts: 186 Thanked: 286 Times	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries Between Kurnool and Gooty the road has become quite bumpy with lots patches, broken top surface etc. Also, in general the traffic has increased on this highway with lots of big trailer trucks due to the Kia plant. These are my observations based on my regular Bangalore- Kurnool trips. Not sure if anything else is contributing to this in Hyderabad- Kurnool stretch.
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29th October 2020, 22:47	#1683
sanchari BHPian Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Blr/Hyd Posts: 377 Thanked: 532 Times	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries Traffic has increased in the Hyderabad-Jadcherla/Mehboobnagar stretch too. On our way from HYD to BLR, we could make decent speeds only after Jedcherla due to lot of traffic. On the way back too, traffic increased after Jecherla. I have also noticed more speed breakers on the HYD-BLR highway now. Earlier, there used to be more speed breakers in Karnataka and very less in AP. Now AP also has quite a few speed breakers.
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1st November 2020, 19:42	#1684
FlashMustang BHPian Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Noida Posts: 117 Thanked: 463 Times	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries I completed the Hyderabad to Bangalore drive as planned on October 28, 2020. Overall, it was a relatively smooth drive and I decided to take it easy with speeds of around 70 kmph to 80 kmph throughout the drive. We stopped roughly every 2 hours for about 10 minutes by the side of the road to stretch our legs, have water, and get refreshed. We were not too much bothered about the overall duration of the drive. We started from Hi-tech City around 7:20 a.m. We reached Shamshabad ORR exit at 7:50 a.m. We too had about a 10 minute wait with only two toll lanes operational. Exited the toll booth around 8:00 a.m. Thereafter, there was a lot of vehicular traffic till Jadcherla. Roads were smooth, with well marked gaps in medians, but, the traffic made it a stressful drive. We stopped at Food Pyramid for a late breakfast at around 9:45 a.m. Had a leisurely and a heavy breakfast stop for an hour. The place was well managed with Covid19 safety measures in place, with clean rest rooms. We resumed around 10:45 a.m. Kurnool and beyond had a couple of diversions, and a number of potholed roads in general scattered throughout AP. We refueled at BPCL COCO Gooty at 1:55 p.m. We had planned for a lunch stop at Hotel Blue Moon Highway, but, unfortunately, it was not operational. We turned back for about a kilometer and made a quick stop at Hotel Mayura for lunch around 2:15 p.m. We resumed our drive at 2:45 p.m. Thereafter, we continued driving towards Bangalore, with the 10 minute breaks every 2 hours. Road conditions improved again upon entering Karnataka, and the roads were butter smooth. We crossed Devanahalli toll plaza around 6:50 p.m., re-fueled again at G K Filling Station, and finally reached our hotel around 7:30 p.m. The speed breakers didn't bother me too much, because I was anyways slowing down at the places where the gaps in medians were indicated by road signs. So, excluding the breakfast, lunch, re-fueling, and rest stops, we had taken about 8.5 hours airport to airport. Hoping to start earlier in the day for our return drive from Bangalore to Hyderabad on November 7, 2020.
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5th November 2020, 11:47	#1685
ankan.m.blr BHPian Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bangalore Posts: 870 Thanked: 961 Times	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries Do we have 24/7 petrol bunks on the Blr-Hyd highway? Also, what is the speed limit on the Hyd ORR? Are there speed cams installed on this road?
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16th December 2020, 10:18	#1692
sanchari BHPian Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Blr/Hyd Posts: 377 Thanked: 532 Times	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries We will be travelling HYD-BLR next week. How do we identify company owned petrol bunks? Typically the company owned ones have better restrooms in my experience. While travelling BLR-HYD, we had stopped at a BP petrol bunk. While it was clean, it didn't have western commodes which would have helped my aged parents, only the Indian squatting types. So trying to make sure if I can find decent clean restrooms with western commodes along the way.
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16th December 2020, 12:36	#1694
FlashMustang BHPian Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Noida Posts: 117 Thanked: 463 Times	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries Adding a few more company owned fuel outlets. Not sure if they have western style water closets though. https://goo.gl/maps/16XsHeUvp2hcugik9 https://goo.gl/maps/1n63KX2g8kzZ1JwUA https://goo.gl/maps/TfKwksnf8TiW2MyUA https://goo.gl/maps/G4KSttv8UdrgQpsDA
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18th December 2020, 15:12	#1695
ranjitkodali BHPian Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 46 Thanked: 8 Times View My Garage	Re: Hyderabad to Bangalore : Route Queries Based on everyone's inputs BLR to HYD Trip COCOs: BP Chikballapur COCO Bharat Petroleum, Manavpad - Kurnool COCO THIMMAPUR Indian Oil Fuel Station
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