Will Metro Rail ease the traffic woes?

P.S.: Published in "The Hindu", Metroplus - Hyderabad Edition - under "Voice Your Views" Column, dated 22nd July, 2013.

              The Metro Rapid Transit System in the metro cities of India caters to large benefits of the public transportation. In Hyderabad, due to rapid urbanisation over the years, its traffic has multiplied many-fold and traffic logjams have become a common sight on majority of its roads. In a step to curb those jams, the metro rail plan was envisaged and approved by the Government in 2008 but the related works have started only in 2012. The first phase of this prestigious project is tentatively scheduled to be operational by 2015. The citizens are eagerly looking forward to it as it will drastically reduce the city’s traffic congestion woes.