Traffic was heavy at sure junctions in and round Lutyens’ Delhi as a result of costume rehearsal.
New Delhi:
Office goers and commuters confronted site visitors hassles as roads in and round Lutyens’ Delhi remained clogged on Tuesday morning, with officers attributing it to decorate rehearsal and preparations for Republic Day.
Traffic congestion was reported from areas comparable to Sansad Marg, Mandi House, ITO and Kartavya Path the place the rehearsals are being carried out.
Other stretches — Akbar Road, Kamraj highway, Rajaji Marg, Safdarjung Road resulting in Central Delhi additionally remained clogged.
Various roundabouts in Central Delhi and the highway in direction of Le Meridien was utterly blocked. Commuters and workplace goers had little selection however to attend for greater than 20 minutes at every stretch at the same time as their autos crawled at a snail’s tempo.
No site visitors advisory was issued by the police which added to the congestion.
“It took me an hour from Mandi House to achieve my workplace in Sansad Marg. Traffic motion was badly affected all through the route,” a commuter mentioned. Another commuter took to Twitter to indicate how a lot the site visitors was affected as autos remained stationary for no less than 45 minutes at one place.
“Pragati Maidan tunnel opening in direction of India Gate facet utterly chocked for greater than half and hour,” he mentioned.
Traffic was heavy at sure junctions in and round Lutyens’ Delhi as a result of costume rehearsal. Vehicular motion was affected for greater than 40 minutes.
“Vehicles have been transferring however slowly however after the state of affairs was introduced beneath management, the site visitors motion turned easy,” a site visitors official mentioned.
Abhishek Narang, one of many commuters mentioned he took a detour by way of Ferozshah Road after seeing site visitors congestion on the Ashoka highway extending as much as India Gate circle.
“But the second I reached the Rail bhawan roundabout, there was once more site visitors throughout. Lot of commuters like me confronted inconvenience and I bought late in reaching workplace,” he mentioned.
Another workplace goer mentioned, “I used to be coming from east Delhi and bought caught on the ITO. Vehicles have been transferring however at a snail’s tempo. After popping out from there, I once more bought struck on the Le Meridien stretch. I needed to attend an essential workplace assembly however I ended up reaching late.” Many metro stations round Central Delhi additionally witnessed improve within the variety of commuters leading to lengthy queues.
“Since I witnessed large site visitors jam on the ITO stretch, I left my cab halfway and determined to take metro to the workplace. But even metro station was crowded however no less than I might attain workplace within the nick of the time,” mentioned one other commuter.
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