The first day of the budget session in the Vidhan Sabha saw the public facing considerable inconvenience due to traffic congestion on roads especially near the Vidhan Sabha.
The police had deployed additional forces around the Vidhan Sabha and had also drafted a traffic plan to spare the commuters inconvenience on the roads it seemed to have come to no avail with vehicles remaining stuck in serpentine snarls for hours. After 10 am, commuters started facing jams at various crossings when elected public representatives and public servants were going to Vidhan Sabha.
Police had installed barricades at several places around Rispana, Dharmpur, Jogiwala and diverted the routes of the vehicles. Huge traffic jams ensued along the routes the fleets of politicians passed, inconveniencing the commuters. Commuters had to wait long, stuck as they were in the traffic jams at many crossings. Vehicles moved at a snail’s pace at many places. The ordeal that started in the morning continued till evening, landing the traffic police in a miserable plight.
At many of the important crossings across the city, vehicles were found stuck bumper to bumper, leaving the commuters in the lurch.
Among the worst affected areas were Rispana, Survey Chowk, Dilaram Chowk, Mussoorie diversion, and Clock Tower, Prince Chowk, Araghar, Saharanpur Chowk, Haridwar Road and other places where traffic either crawled or got stuck. One of the vehicle users whose car was found stuck in a traffic jam on EC Road, said that it has become normal for commuters to face traffic jams during the Assembly sessions.