GURUGRAM: On Friday, Gurugram won heavy showers in numerous bouts during the day, leaving maximum important junctions waterlogged and key roads clogged.
In the day, Gurugram reported round 39.4mm of rainfall till past due night, leaving residents marooned their own homes, workplaces as well as the streets for hours.
A couple of hours’ showers left main pockets of Udyog Vihar industrial area, stretches close to Rajiv Chowk and Signature Towers waterlogged. It additionally introduced site visitors to a halt, leaving commuters stranded on maximum busy roads for hours.
While cars heading Delhi moved at a snail’s pace along the NH-8, there was once a one-kilometre-long tailback on Gurugram-Faridabad highway between 5pm and 8pm. “It took me an hour to pressure down from Khusboo Chowk to Valley View Estate,” stated Mangal Singh, a resident of Gwalpahari.
Traffic police officers, who have been deployed on the freeway, stated cars going to Delhi have been in particular hit due to waterlogging close to Sirhaul toll. “Due to the showers, there have been multiple breakdowns on the stretch. The snarls (inside the town) have been principally brought about by way of the tailbacks coming from inside Delhi,” stated a senior site visitors cop.
Around 200 further police officers have been on the roads in the day to control site visitors. “The commissioner of police was once for my part overseeing the site visitors control in the town. Traffic personnel manning the roads have been requested to send videos of each and every choke point to the headquarters. And in case of waterlogging, they intimated the departments concerned,” stated a senior site visitors cop.
In the day, Gurugram reported round 39.4mm of rainfall till past due night, leaving residents marooned their own homes, workplaces as well as the streets for hours.
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A couple of hours’ showers left main pockets of Udyog Vihar industrial area, stretches close to Rajiv Chowk and Signature Towers waterlogged. It additionally introduced site visitors to a halt, leaving commuters stranded on maximum busy roads for hours.
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While cars heading Delhi moved at a snail’s pace along the NH-8, there was once a one-kilometre-long tailback on Gurugram-Faridabad highway between 5pm and 8pm. “It took me an hour to pressure down from Khusboo Chowk to Valley View Estate,” stated Mangal Singh, a resident of Gwalpahari.
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Traffic police officers, who have been deployed on the freeway, stated cars going to Delhi have been in particular hit due to waterlogging close to Sirhaul toll. “Due to the showers, there have been multiple breakdowns on the stretch. The snarls (inside the town) have been principally brought about by way of the tailbacks coming from inside Delhi,” stated a senior site visitors cop.
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Around 200 further police officers have been on the roads in the day to control site visitors. “The commissioner of police was once for my part overseeing the site visitors control in the town. Traffic personnel manning the roads have been requested to send videos of each and every choke point to the headquarters. And in case of waterlogging, they intimated the departments concerned,” stated a senior site visitors cop.
Delhi-NCR rains: Clogged Gurugram a travel nightmare
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