The continuous 50 minutes rains on Friday evening flooded the Indore BRTS with water as the BRTS from Indore zoo till Noulakha square was flooded with around 2 feet height at many places and stretched till more than 100 meters at some places at both the side of BRTS road.
People were seen pulling their cars and bikes to give way to the traffic. The most dangerous thing was that the streetlights running at the side of the BRTS were also drown in the water and the possibility of current coming on road could not be ruled out. It took more than 4o minutes for the people to drive a distance of 1 km to cross Noulakha square.
Notably, Indore BRTS which is around 12 kilometers long and is the lifeline of the Indore public transport.
There are more than a dozen imp squares and dozens of side roads connected to this BRTS. More than lakhs of vehicles and people move on this road daily and the outsiders who come to Indore from any side of Indore cross this BRTS road to enter into the city.
According to sources the water logging on the BRTS roads is due to the choked drains and at some places the road is running below the ground level.
Locals told that Indore is aspiring to be the number one in traffic and the maintenance of this BRTS road should be also connected under the project of better traffic system of Indore.
Additional commissioner of Indore municipal Krishan Chaitnya told The Pioneer that he has instructed Devendra Singh and Tomar to look after the causes of water logging at BRTS.
Indore locals told that when it took 40 minutes to cross the 1 km BRTS road how many hours it will take to cross the 12 kms BRTS road.