Stuck for more than 45 minutes in mid-night traffic, Jet Airways CEO Sanjiv Kapoor, while leaving from IGI terminal-3 towards Gurugram, blamed the large number of trucks heading out of Delhi to Gurugram.
Reporting the problem, the airline's CEO posted the problem on Twitter and tagged Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari to find a solution for the problem. In the post, he also tagged the Delhi Traffic Police and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to address the issue.
It has taken 45 minutes to get from DEL T3 parking to the right turn under the highway to get onto NH-48 towards Gurgaon. And we have been stuck at this spot here for at least 15 minutes at 12.39 a.m.," he tweeted on Friday. "The culprit: masses of trucks heading out of Delhi on NH48, and one car parked facing the wrong direction on the left lane of the highway with headlights on but no driver. This video at 12.45am," his tweet read.
Besides the problem of traffic, the CEO also pointed out the randomly parked trucks in the middle of the highway without any lights "As we approach the Haryana border, trucks randomly parked in the middle of the highway, not even on the leftmost lane. How many accidents and how many lives lost due to accidents caused by this? Can this not be controlled?" he said in another tweet. Later on, describing the problem further, Sanjiv Kapoor further added, "Besides the traffic snarl at 1am getting onto the highway towards Gurgaon from T3, the bigger worry is the random parking of trucks with all lights switched off almost in the middle of the highway near the Haryana border. How is that allowed to continue so brazenly?" The Delhi-Gurugram e-way, which was built for a smooth and high-speed travel, has lost its very objective. Lack of lay-by spots, increase in volume of vehicles and not following lane driving norms leads to massive traffic jams throughout the day. The 27.7-km stretch spans from Rao Tula Ram flyover near the Delhi airport to Kherki Daula toll plaza in Gurugram. Over 4 lakh vehicles use this stretch during peak morning and evening hours.
Traffic bottlenecks can be witnessed not just during peak hours, but also throughout the day, due to poor condition of service lanes and missing direction boards around Terminal 3 of the Delhi airport.
As thousands of people commute daily between Gurugram and Delhi for office work, jam is witnessed at the Sirhaul border. It takes an hour to reach from Shankar Chowk to Sirhaul border. Even the MCD toll at border has been disturbing movement of traffic.