Govt identifies 62 chronic traffic choke points worsening city's air

The Delhi government has identified 62 traffic congestion hot spots across the Capital - choke points that officials said are adding a "measurable layer" to the city's pollution load - after drawing up a citywide, multi-agency decongestion blueprint, officials said on Friday.

- Jasjeev Gandhiok and Snehil Sinha

An internal presentation, accessed by HT, shows these bottlenecks stretch across nearly every district: from the chronically clogged Bhavbhuti Marg outside New Delhi Railway Station to Madhuban Chowk in northwest Delhi, Mayur Vihar Phase III in the east, South Extension in the south, Punjabi Bagh in the west, and the dense transit corridors around Kashmere Gate and Anand Vihar.

More than half of the 62 sites see severe jams during morning and evening rush hours, it showed. Prominent among those are Safdarjung Hospital, Ajmeri Gate, the road outside Max Hospital in Saket and the Punjabi Bagh roundabout on Ring Road. Another 11 spots, experience intense evening load while six areas were found to be choked on weekends.