GURUGRAM: A week after site visitors used to be segregated into lanes on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway on the Sirhaul border, congestion still prevails within the area.
Vehicles coming from underneath the Shankar Chowk flyover, together with those from Cyber City and Udyog Vihar, and heading towards Delhi first get stuck on the MCD toll booths supposed for industrial automobiles. And the peak-hour site visitors that starts building up round 6pm proper after the toll booths further slows down the flow by way of 20 minutes as much as the Rajkori flyover and U-turn.
What seems to be the primary reason behind this chaos within the area is MCD toll assortment and cabbies trying to slip previous it. Despite assigned lanes and diversions for industrial automobiles, many cab drivers try to velocity away that that compels toll collectors to prevent them in the course of the road, choking site visitors. On each Thursday and Friday, site visitors snarls continued further down the freeway till the Dwarka hyperlink highway go out.
Delhi Traffic Police mentioned the MCD toll staff has been asked not to stand on the diverging point to direct industrial automobiles towards their lanes. “They have also been advised not to forestall industrial automobiles that have entered the lane for personal automobiles at this point,” ACP Manish of Delhi site visitors police informed TOI.
While police officers also attributed Thursday night time’s large snarls to the digging up of a small patch on the service highway of the freeway, proper ahead of the Dwarka hyperlink highway, they mentioned the placement used to be better on Friday night time. “Cops are deployed at several points. Numerous automobiles come from the Udyog Vihar and Cyber City facet and merge into the site visitors coming throughout the flyover. The night time volume of site visitors is inflicting the snarls,” mentioned ACP Hira Singh of Gurugram site visitors police.
On the ground, there's numerous resistance to the brand new rule.
Satish, a driving force of a non-public taxi service, most popular the old system to the brand new one. “For industrial automobiles, the access point towards the Rajokri flyover is way prime ahead and the narrow access point is leading to jams,” he mentioned. He isn't solely unsuitable as the merging of site visitors paintings smooth all through the non-peak hours. But impatient drivers are seen trying to continuously change the lanes, which reasons snarls all through rush hours.
Commuters also blamed the toll staff for the mess. “MCD toll collectors only forestall tagged automobiles and continuously do untimely checks which is only creating more problems for the commuters. Despite the trial and demarcation, there still seems to be a minimal use of signage forums for commuters to pre-adjust to the lanes and the site visitors is manually controlled by way of Gurugram site visitors police,” mentioned Ashok Kumar, a commuter.
ACP Manish, then again, mentioned that despite the extraordinarily difficult scenario, the Gurugram site visitors police are doing its absolute best. “We actually admire the exemplary efforts taken by way of the Gurugram police regarding the lane diversions at Rajokri border,” he mentioned.
Vehicles coming from underneath the Shankar Chowk flyover, together with those from Cyber City and Udyog Vihar, and heading towards Delhi first get stuck on the MCD toll booths supposed for industrial automobiles. And the peak-hour site visitors that starts building up round 6pm proper after the toll booths further slows down the flow by way of 20 minutes as much as the Rajkori flyover and U-turn.
What seems to be the primary reason behind this chaos within the area is MCD toll assortment and cabbies trying to slip previous it. Despite assigned lanes and diversions for industrial automobiles, many cab drivers try to velocity away that that compels toll collectors to prevent them in the course of the road, choking site visitors. On each Thursday and Friday, site visitors snarls continued further down the freeway till the Dwarka hyperlink highway go out.
Delhi Traffic Police mentioned the MCD toll staff has been asked not to stand on the diverging point to direct industrial automobiles towards their lanes. “They have also been advised not to forestall industrial automobiles that have entered the lane for personal automobiles at this point,” ACP Manish of Delhi site visitors police informed TOI.
While police officers also attributed Thursday night time’s large snarls to the digging up of a small patch on the service highway of the freeway, proper ahead of the Dwarka hyperlink highway, they mentioned the placement used to be better on Friday night time. “Cops are deployed at several points. Numerous automobiles come from the Udyog Vihar and Cyber City facet and merge into the site visitors coming throughout the flyover. The night time volume of site visitors is inflicting the snarls,” mentioned ACP Hira Singh of Gurugram site visitors police.
On the ground, there's numerous resistance to the brand new rule.
Satish, a driving force of a non-public taxi service, most popular the old system to the brand new one. “For industrial automobiles, the access point towards the Rajokri flyover is way prime ahead and the narrow access point is leading to jams,” he mentioned. He isn't solely unsuitable as the merging of site visitors paintings smooth all through the non-peak hours. But impatient drivers are seen trying to continuously change the lanes, which reasons snarls all through rush hours.
Commuters also blamed the toll staff for the mess. “MCD toll collectors only forestall tagged automobiles and continuously do untimely checks which is only creating more problems for the commuters. Despite the trial and demarcation, there still seems to be a minimal use of signage forums for commuters to pre-adjust to the lanes and the site visitors is manually controlled by way of Gurugram site visitors police,” mentioned Ashok Kumar, a commuter.
ACP Manish, then again, mentioned that despite the extraordinarily difficult scenario, the Gurugram site visitors police are doing its absolute best. “We actually admire the exemplary efforts taken by way of the Gurugram police regarding the lane diversions at Rajokri border,” he mentioned.
Snarls near Delhi-Gurugram border yet to ease, drivers blame chaos at MCD toll
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