The DND flyway was completely choked for almost an hour on Friday after Samajwadi Party (SP) members blocked the Noida toll plaza with their vehicles in an impromptu plan to welcome their newly elected city president Anil Yadav.
Traffic movement between Ashram Chowk in Delhi to Film City in Noida was near paralysed and it took at least two to three hours to cover the 7.5-km stretch. Around 11 am, nearly 200 party workers reached the plaza along with 100 motorcars. They parked their vehicles at the Delhi-Noida toll gate and its vicinity and waited for the Minister for nearly two hours. In the meantime, traffic movement went from slow to stagnant. The party workers did not care for the Traffic Police or the marshalls deployed by DND authority. The traffic chaos ended only after the Minister left with his entourage.
“As we noticed traffic jam on the carriageway, scores of traffic personnel were deployed and the jam finally cleared after 1 pm when the party workers left the plaza. As hundreds of vehicles were parked near the plaza, traffic movement was slowed for a few hours,” said a senior official of the Traffic Department.