Commuters had a hard time travelling on waterlogged stretches across the national Capital following incessant rain that lashed the city.
Vehicular traffic crawled on waterlogged roads as long tailbacks were observed after the city received 59.0 mm rainfall.
According to a senior Traffic Police officer, additional staff was deployed to manage the traffic situation and reserve staff was called in to ensure that commuters did not face a harrowing time.
Regular tweets were sent out on the Delhi Traffic Police’s Twitter handle cautioning people about avoiding waterlogged roads. People were stuck in jams on several key stretches in South Delhi like Moolchand, Modi Mill flyover, Pul Prahladpur underpass, Savitri Cinema flyover, Moti Bagh, Chirag Dilli and Saket.
Major intersections like Ashram Chowk, Britannia Chowk, Kashmere Gate, ITO, Mukarba Chowk, Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road also were chock-a-block giving road users a hard time.
The situation was worsened by a DTC bus breaking down on Raj Nagar Flyover thereby affecting traffic movement between Raj Nagar Flyover and Safdarjung.
Asha Debbarman, who is a content writer at a media firm in Noida, said that she went to office by car and it took her over two hours to reach.
“Normally by car, it takes one hour for me to reach Film City Noida Sector-16 from my home in Jor Bagh but today there was a lot of traffic and it took me more than two hours to reach office. I got very frustrated,” said Asha.