Diwali 2024: Large visitors snarls have been witnessed in components of Delhi and neighbouring Noida on Tuesday (October 29) forward of the Diwali pageant. The visitors within the nationwide capital got here to a standstill as throngs of buyers flooded the markets to have a good time Dhanteras, creating important delays and inconvenience to commuters.
Commuters took to X saying the visitors was heavy at a number of locations together with Badarpur flyover, CV Raman Marg, Punjabi Bagh, Badarpur Mehrauli Street, Taimur Nagar-Maharani Bagh Street, Ashram and Yamuna Vihar. A number of movies confirmed visitors snarls in Laxmi Nagar, Karol Bagh, Sarai Kale Khan, Delhi-Noida-Delhi (DND) flyway and several other different components of Delhi-NCR.
Sunil Yadav, a authorized advisory in a non-public agency, stated, “The visitors was heavy from Barahpullah flyover in the direction of Sarai Kale Khan. The autos have been crawling on the street on that exact stretch.”
One other commuter Vivek Singh stated the visitors was huge between Madhuban Chowk to Rohini East Metro station.
A number of social media customers criticism
“Delhi is gasping for breath on the pageant of Dhanteras. Simply have a look at the situation of visitors,” stated an X consumer.
One other X consumer stated, “Site visitors is choked at New Ashok Nagar metro station and it’s 300 mtr surrounding. And we’re not in a position to see a single visitors individual to resolve this.”
Delhi Police made elaborated preparations
The Delhi Police has stated they’ve made elaborated preparations for clean stream of visitors. A senior visitors police officer stated they’ve intensified checking on the street. “We’ve deployed personnel on bikes to test the encroachment on busy roads which might result in visitors congestion within the space. People who find themselves coming to the markets are additionally been knowledgeable that they need to park their autos at designated locations.
“The personnel have loud audio system on their bikes to make the stream of visitors clean. Non-destined autos aren’t being allowed to enter the nationwide capital. Steady anti-encroachment drive can be been carried out within the crowded locations,” the officer stated.
In view of the festive season, the Delhi Metro additionally acknowledged that it’ll introduce extra 60 journeys on Tuesday and Wednesday in a bid to boost commuter comfort and ease congestion. There are round 4,000 day by day journeys of Metro.
(With PTI inputs)
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