Severe congestions on routes along, Ashram, Sarai Kale Khan, Majnu Ka Tila, Hanuman Setu, Rajghat

The traffic on Ring Road is anything but a smooth circle, if anything it resembles a ‘jalebi’ with two wheelers, autos and even rickshaws crossing lanes in a bid to get ahead in the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the circular road.

From Majnu Ka Tila to Hanuman Temple these jams are making the drivers sweat in their vehicles. There is a severe traffic jam on both sides of this route from Majnu Ka Tila to Hanuman Setu. This adds to the problems of the drivers coming to Majnu Ka Tila from Rajghat side, and those coming to Hanuman Setu from Majnu Ka Tila side.

On Tuesdays, there is a severe traffic jam on both sides in front of Hanuman temple. All efforts to reduce this jam have failed. Recently, traffic signals have been installed at the end of Hanuman Mandir Setu by Delhi Traffic Police. But this has not resulted in much improvement right now.

After the inauguration of Ashram Flyover, and Ashram Flyover Extension, people were expecting some relief from the jam, but due to the bottleneck near Sarai Kale Khan on the Ring Road, the mess remains.

As soon as one descends from the Ashram flyover to the Ring Road, the traffic jams begin, due to which it takes more than half-an-hour for people to cover the distance of about half a kilometre to Sarai Kale Khan. This is due to the ongoing construction work of the rapid rail at Sarai Kale Khan.

Meanwhile, traffic jams continue on six roads of outer Delhi. Even emergency vehicles, ambulances and fire engines also get stuck in this jam. At the same time, due to the bottle neck near Haiderpur Badli Mod on Outer Ring Road, the traffic of six-lanes gets reduced to four lanes. The jam here is due to the narrow railway bridge. Vehicles coming without stopping from the elevated road from Pitampura get stuck in traffic as soon as they reach here.

Several meetings have also been held between the  Public Works Department (PWD) and Railways. According to PWD sources the width of this bridge can be increased soon if mutual consent is reached.

Due to the construction work of Outer Ring Road Metro, there are traffic jams from Prashant Vihar to Rohini Jail Mod. it takes about 30 to 40 minutes to cover three kilometres in, whereas earlier it used to take five to seven minutes.

Vehicles coming from KN Katju route are stuck in traffic jams as soon as they reach the outer ring road. E-rickshaws and other vehicles parked haphazardly below Rithala metro station, add to the mess.