Traffic snarls key issue in city's nosiest Karol Bagh

KAROL Bagh a shopper's delight with Ajmal Khan Road offering affordable readymade garments, cotton yarn and embroidered garments, Arya Samaj Road housing second-hand books market, and Bank Street with jewellery shops-has also earned a name of being the nosiest location of the national capital.

- IFRAH MUFTI

It recently recorded an average day-time decibel levels of 74.2 dB(A) in 2023, data from the Economic Survey 2023-24 shows. It was the fourth consecutive year that the station has recorded the highest average decibel levels in a year since it was set up in 2020.

Encroachments, parking woes and traffic snarls-the reasons are many.

"I have been living in the locality since the 1990s, and it used to be a quiet place with only the market area being noisy. I even remember bicycling and playing on the streets.