Terrible Tuesday: Traffic comes to a grinding halt on Gurgaon expressway

GURGAON: The expressway on Tuesday morning experienced a 3-km-long traffic jam that left commuters fuming. Traffic was at its peak at around 10.30am and it took almost two hours before smooth vehicular movement could be witnessed on the e-way.The traffic situation was especially bad near exit 6 and vehicles were seen waiting in queues, extending up to Ambience Mall.
Those coming from Delhi or travelling to Jaipur were stranded and there was no traffic movement for over half an hour. Sherawat Singh, a commuter who was on his way to Jaipur, said, “I was going to Jaipur to attend an important business meeting but was stuck in the terrible jam. At one point, my car was stuck in one place for almost 40 minutes. My driver had to drive at some 10 km/hour for a long time, what with the road being chock-a-block with traffic.”To make matters worse, five cars broke down on the stretch, further blocking vehicular movement. The service lanes were also jampacked. According to a police officer, inadequate space for cars to exit the e-way was a major reason for this congestion.Traffic moving towards the expressway from Shaheed Ripon Katyal Marg was also affected and commuters on this route had to wait for about an hour before they could get to the other side of the e-way.