Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Thank god it’s over! The festival season has finished and so has Delhi’s traffic woes. On Wednesday night, it took me almost three hours to get out of Delhi. I was supposed to take the GT road towards Karnal (NH1), but it took me almost three hours before I reached Singhu border that day. I started from Punchkuian Road and then took the Ring Road thinking that flow of traffic would be just fine. On the contrary wherever I went there were jams.Another problem, which can be easily rectified, is on Leo Tolstoy Marg. A central verge is an absolute necessity there as most of the vehicles that have to go towards Janpath cross the road from wherever they like blocking the path of vehicles headed towards Barakhamba or K.G. Marg. This creates an unnecessary jam and it took me half an hour from Janpath intersection to reach Barakhamba intersection. I believe during peak hours these jams are constant phenomena as most of the cars coming out of the adjacent parking areas block the road. If a permanent solution is not possible then dividing the road with ropes can be done as a temporary arrangement during peak hours.Another problem is at Dr K.B Hedgevar (Bye-pass) road connecting ISBT to G.T. Road. Presently expansion of this road is happening and at night driving through this road is extremely dangerous. First of all there are hardly any streetlights at this stretch. At one stretch there are dimly lit tubelights, which hardly cater to the needs of motorists. Only at one stretch there are mercury lights. The construction site is not at all covered. Instead huge boulders are kept on the road, which divide the construction area from the main road. This road is an accident black spot and sees heavy movement of cyclists and two-wheelers apart from the regular trucks and buses. The authorities should take safety measures while construction work is going on this road to avoid accidents

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