It was a bad morning for office goers – and worse for the Class 12 CBSE board exam aspirants, who were to appear for the Physical Education paper on Monday – with severe traffic congestions being reported across the national Capital. Areas in East and North-east Delhi were the worst hit.
According to the Delhi Traffic Police, the traffic congestion was caused largely by the protest of municipal workers, who reportedly did not get their salaries for the past three months and avenged by dumping garbage on the middle of the roads.
Areas that witnessed a choke-a-block situation include – the entire stretch between Laxmi Nagar and Preet Vihar; the stretch near Anand Vihar ISBT; Durgapuri Chowk in Shahdara; Vivek Vihar and Apsara Chowk, Khajuri Chowk and Surya Nagar, informed a traffic official.
The western part of the city too, including the peripheries, witnessed heavy traffic jams during the same time. Such areas include – Kirti Nagar, Uttam Nagar and areas around the Shadipur Depot.
Long tailbacks started getting reported from as early as 8 am and lasted beyond 11 am, till the dumped garbage were set aside.
By 9.30 am, the Delhi Traffic Police Helpline numbers (011-25844444 and 011-23378840) were flooded with calls, mostly from parents of the CBSE board aspirants, who were stuck midway and wanted the officials to suggest alternate routes, so that they could at least reach the examination centres by 10.15 am, which is 15 minutes prior to the scheduled time, said a traffic official.
However, that didn’t work as most of the alternate routes were equally choked.
“I was accompanying my cousin to his examination centre near Preet Vihar. We started from the
Durgapuri Chowk at 8.30 am and as we reached near the Karkardooma court, we were stuck. We reached our destination at 10 am, with hardly any time left for revision,” said Shiv Kumar, a resident of Shahdara.
“We were stuck near Preet Vihar and it took almost two hours to reach the Mayur Vihar Phase I from there, which is around 3.5 kilometeres. The situation turned worse as we reached closer to the examination centre. We finally had to leave our car and resort to walking to reach the exam centre on time,” said another board aspirant’s father who, along with his daughter, was rushing to the Ahlcon Public School.
According to the Delhi Traffic Police, the traffic congestion was caused largely by the protest of municipal workers, who reportedly did not get their salaries for the past three months and avenged by dumping garbage on the middle of the roads.
Areas that witnessed a choke-a-block situation include – the entire stretch between Laxmi Nagar and Preet Vihar; the stretch near Anand Vihar ISBT; Durgapuri Chowk in Shahdara; Vivek Vihar and Apsara Chowk, Khajuri Chowk and Surya Nagar, informed a traffic official.
The western part of the city too, including the peripheries, witnessed heavy traffic jams during the same time. Such areas include – Kirti Nagar, Uttam Nagar and areas around the Shadipur Depot.
Long tailbacks started getting reported from as early as 8 am and lasted beyond 11 am, till the dumped garbage were set aside.
By 9.30 am, the Delhi Traffic Police Helpline numbers (011-25844444 and 011-23378840) were flooded with calls, mostly from parents of the CBSE board aspirants, who were stuck midway and wanted the officials to suggest alternate routes, so that they could at least reach the examination centres by 10.15 am, which is 15 minutes prior to the scheduled time, said a traffic official.
However, that didn’t work as most of the alternate routes were equally choked.
“I was accompanying my cousin to his examination centre near Preet Vihar. We started from the
Durgapuri Chowk at 8.30 am and as we reached near the Karkardooma court, we were stuck. We reached our destination at 10 am, with hardly any time left for revision,” said Shiv Kumar, a resident of Shahdara.
“We were stuck near Preet Vihar and it took almost two hours to reach the Mayur Vihar Phase I from there, which is around 3.5 kilometeres. The situation turned worse as we reached closer to the examination centre. We finally had to leave our car and resort to walking to reach the exam centre on time,” said another board aspirant’s father who, along with his daughter, was rushing to the Ahlcon Public School.