NEW DELHI:
Traffic jams
were
back
in Delhi on Wednesday as hundreds of vehicles
slowed down
at the
police pickets
across the city. The pickets were set up to
check
for
migrant labourers
heading towards the railway stations, Anand Vihar and border areas. The resultant snarls choked parts of Vikas Marg, Ring Road and Outer Ring Road.
Commuters had started complaining about jams since Wednesday morning as
vehicles
were getting stuck in traffic on the arterial roads as well. “We have advised the local cops to ensure that the gaps between the pickets are increased during the peak hours. However, since they have been put on an alert to check for migrants, the vehicles are slowed down and scanned,” said Taj Hassan, special CP traffic. This is expected to continue for the next few days.
While the checks were intensified during the peak hours, traffic jams were reported from Nizamuddin, ITO, Dhaula Kuan and Punjabi Bagh areas. Commuters near the Nizamuddin bridge complained that barricades were erected to conduct checks for vehicles coming from Ghazipur and Noida Link Road. The resultant jams stretched back to nearly one and a half kilometres behind the barricade.
“Even though there were policemen deployed at this barricade, they were standing quite far away from the point where the vehicles were crossing. What is the point of having such a checkpost?” asked Sidharth Singh who was heading to his central Delhi office.
Chaos was reported near the ITO crossing as well around noon. At the Aurobindo Marg, near Green Park, commuters complained about serpentine traffic queues stretching back till AIIMS after multiple rows of cars were found parked on the road.
“With parking assistants remaining absent due to the lockdown and the adjoining roads blocked by police, it was absolute chaos during the evening peak hours,” said Atul Mishra who was stuck in the jam for nearly half an hour on Wednesday evening.
Even though 2,000 traffic policemen were deployed across the city, most of them were on duty at the pickets to check vehicles for migrants.
Commuters also complained about traffic tangles in the colonies as the road blockades were not yet removed from several places despite requests from the RWAs.
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