A ten-km-long site visitors jam introduced site visitors on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to a crawl close to the Delhi-Gurugram border on Friday night following heavy rain, leaving a whole bunch of commuters stranded for hours, police stated.
The site visitors began crawling close to Shiv Murti in Mahipalpur, Delhi, and the tailback reached Udyog Vihar Section-IV in Gurugram by 6.30pm, site visitors law enforcement officials stated.
Narayan Acharya, a commuter travelling from Gurugram to Kathmandu in Nepal by highway, instructed HT that he had been trapped within the jam for the final two and a half hours. “We discovered gradual transferring site visitors from Iffco Chowk round 4pm. Now, its 6.30pm however we’ve not been in a position to cross the Sirhaul toll plaza on the Delhi-Gurugram border which is a distance of hardly about six kilometres,” he stated, including his car was nonetheless 200 metres behind the plaza.
Vikas Kumar, one other commuter travelling in the direction of Delhi from Gurugram, instructed HT that the other carriageway resulting in Jaipur was utterly empty. “There isn’t any spot to even take even a U-turn now. I’m trapped in my car for the final three hours. Trying on the state of affairs, it appears it could take two to 3 extra hours earlier than I might be able to cross this complete stretch of jam,” he stated, including rain had additional aggravated the scenario.
Assistant commissioner of police (site visitors headquarters) Satyapal Yadav stated that extreme waterlogging close to Shiv Murti in Delhi had resulted within the several-kilometre-long jam on the expressway.
“We’ve got diverted the site visitors transferring in the direction of Delhi through the expressway to MG Highway from the elevated part of the Iffco chowk to journey in the direction of Aya Nagar,” he stated.
“These autos destined to succeed in IGI worldwide airport for dropping passengers should not being touched. We’ve got issued advisory for such autos to journey via Dwarka expressway,” he added.
Yadav stated he was having steady conversations along with his counterpart in Delhi, who had knowledgeable him that pumps had been put in close to Shiv Murti to take away the waterlogging. “The principle drain there was not useful due which the water logging came about as per Delhi site visitors police officers,” he stated.