Coimbatore: The city witnessed massive site visitors snarls on Monday morning following the heavy rain that have been lashing from Sunday night time.
Most of the underpasses and subways have been inundated. Vehicles have been stuck on the Brookebond Road for greater than 15 mins as they attempted to power up the flyover and input Avinashi Road. There used to be heavy site visitors on Mettupalayam Road, Kikani Underpass, Ramnagar and 100feet Road.
As the heavy rain led to by way of a despair over the Arabian Sea tapered off around Friday, the city had experienced two fairly dry days. However, from Sunday night time, rain started to pound the city, getting stronger until Monday afternoon.
“A brand new despair shaped over the Bay of Bengal this time,” a weather division professional said.
Thanks to it, the city gained 13.2mm of rain as on Monday night time.
As the rain threw standard existence out of gear, school & officers-goers have been probably the most affected. Vehicles moved at a snail’s pace thru the main roads. Drivers passing thru Brookebond Road, Avinashi Road Flyover, Goodshed Road and Mettupalayam Road settled back of their automobiles for an extended wait.
“The Town Hall space and Tatabad saw heavy site visitors. Most of the motorists wanted to keep away from the water pooled up on the aspects and wanted to power best on the centre of the road,” complained V Raja, a jewellery store employee. “With car drivers refusing to move below the flyover, the flyover got too congested,” said the person, who took 15 mins to move the flyover.
Traffic diversion on Sukrawarpet Road used to be now not a lot of a lend a hand. The highway, which is taken by way of motorists to enter the Thadagam Road, Gandhi Park and Selvapuram, have been closed from the Mettupalayam Road Junction since last week for drainage development. Vehicles in need of to succeed in those puts had to turn proper into Mettuapalayam Road after which take a left into the various inside roads to succeed in DB Road after which any other inside highway to succeed in Thadagam Road.
“As a end result, Mettupalayam Road, which anyway sees high site visitors, used to be a multitude from Sunday night time,” said Gowtham T, a commuter. “It took 15 mins to travel 3km,” he informed TOI.
Rainfall at the side of high speed winds are anticipated to proceed until Tuesday.
Most of the underpasses and subways have been inundated. Vehicles have been stuck on the Brookebond Road for greater than 15 mins as they attempted to power up the flyover and input Avinashi Road. There used to be heavy site visitors on Mettupalayam Road, Kikani Underpass, Ramnagar and 100feet Road.
As the heavy rain led to by way of a despair over the Arabian Sea tapered off around Friday, the city had experienced two fairly dry days. However, from Sunday night time, rain started to pound the city, getting stronger until Monday afternoon.
“A brand new despair shaped over the Bay of Bengal this time,” a weather division professional said.
Thanks to it, the city gained 13.2mm of rain as on Monday night time.
As the rain threw standard existence out of gear, school & officers-goers have been probably the most affected. Vehicles moved at a snail’s pace thru the main roads. Drivers passing thru Brookebond Road, Avinashi Road Flyover, Goodshed Road and Mettupalayam Road settled back of their automobiles for an extended wait.
“The Town Hall space and Tatabad saw heavy site visitors. Most of the motorists wanted to keep away from the water pooled up on the aspects and wanted to power best on the centre of the road,” complained V Raja, a jewellery store employee. “With car drivers refusing to move below the flyover, the flyover got too congested,” said the person, who took 15 mins to move the flyover.
Traffic diversion on Sukrawarpet Road used to be now not a lot of a lend a hand. The highway, which is taken by way of motorists to enter the Thadagam Road, Gandhi Park and Selvapuram, have been closed from the Mettupalayam Road Junction since last week for drainage development. Vehicles in need of to succeed in those puts had to turn proper into Mettuapalayam Road after which take a left into the various inside roads to succeed in DB Road after which any other inside highway to succeed in Thadagam Road.
“As a end result, Mettupalayam Road, which anyway sees high site visitors, used to be a multitude from Sunday night time,” said Gowtham T, a commuter. “It took 15 mins to travel 3km,” he informed TOI.
Rainfall at the side of high speed winds are anticipated to proceed until Tuesday.
Pounding rain brings city to its knees
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