15-minute shower, dug-up roads bring traffic to a crawl again

Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010


Traffic in parts of South and South-East Delhi moved at a snail's pace on Tuesday due to light showers and roads that were dug up as part of the ongoing construction activity.

However, the Delhi Traffic Police considered it a better day for the city and maintained that "Delhiites have seen worse scenes after the rains".

"Traffic was slow in South and South-East Delhi. A major slowdown was caused due to road-digging work taken up by Delhi Transco around the Ashram area. Some areas reported water logging also, but the fact that it rained much after the morning rush hour and before the evening rush hour made things run smoothly," Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Satyendra Garg said.

Traffic was reported to be slow from Ashram, towards New Friends Colony, Millennium Park and Moolchand. Water logging brought vehicular movement to a crawl near South Extension (from IIT to Adchini), outside Mehrauli station, on the Outer Ring Road under Bersarai Flyover, Maharani Bagh and Lajpat Nagar.

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A Metro crane that broke down on Mathura Road hampered traffic movement from Modi Flyover to Badarpur. However, there were no reports of traffic jams from usually affected points such as Dhaula Kuan and Moolchand Flyover.

Rain Drain
15 minutes of rain
36.6 degrees Celsius: Temperature recorded by the Safdarjung Met Department after the showers, 3 degrees above normal
21.6 mm rains till 5.30 pm
341.6 mm, total rain this season
28 degrees C: minimum temperature, 2 notches above normal

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