Incessant rains for several hours on Tuesday morning wreaked havoc in the Millennium City leading to water-logging in most of the city's roads and massive traffic jams. The traffic movement on the Gurugram-Delhi expressway was also badly hit at several points due to waterlogging.
More than three hours after the rains stopped around 8 a.m., all major intersections of the city – Rajiv Chowk, IFFCO Chowk, Netaji Subhash Chowk, Signature Towers, Atul Kataria Chowk and Hero Honda Chowk-- were inundated leading to traffic snarls. The motorists travelling from Jharsa Chowk to HUDA City Centre through Signature Towers had a tough time as they remained stuck for around an hour. “The U-turn towards the HUDA City Centre metro station was completely choked around 11 a.m. and no policeman was seen anywhere nearby. Some motorists then got off their cars to manage the traffic on their own,” said Rakesh Kumar, a resident of Sector 15 Part-II.
Similarly, the stretch extending from HUDA City Centre metro station to Netaji Subhash Chowk on Sohna Road also witnessed congestion due to slow moving traffic.
"It took me around four hours to reach the Gurugram courts premises from Saket in Delhi. Usually it takes me only an hour," said Vineet Sethi, a resident of Sainik Farms.
The water-logged roads also hit the plying of school buses forcing some of the institutes to declare it a holiday.
Besides, the internal roads in Sector 15 Part-II, Sector 14, Sector 23, Sector 24, Sector 46, Sector 29, Sector 44, Sector 45, Sector 46 and DLF areas were also flooded causing inconvenience to the motorists.
The Gurugram Police maintained that its personnel were deployed “on each and every point trying to regulate the traffic”.