Overnight Rain Floods Roads in Delhi, Gurugram & Ghaziabad | Key Routes Affected

The overnight rains of heavy nature on Wednesday caused hours of traffic jams in the cities of NCR region of Uttar Pradesh namely Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurugram district of Haryana as rains continued to pour in isolated areas into the Thursday.

Delhi-NCR commuters, office-goers mustered up their way through mucky roads, filled potholes, and prolonged jams on Wednesday Night, and Thursday morning with some of the roads being practically unpassable.

IMD has given an orange alert in Delhi and Gurugram on Thursday, under which there may be more rain.

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On Wednesday there are roads affected after rain

• On Wednesday night, there was heavy rain that caused heavy traffic hours on end at ITO to Old Rohtak Road, Delhi-Jaipur highway (NH-8) and Madhuban Chowk.
• There was a bumper-to-bumper traffic in the Shadipur area till late in the afternoon as motorists experienced delays of as much as an hour.
• Nangloi to Najafgarh and vice versa traffic was stalled.
• In one of their posts on the X platform the Delhi Traffic Police alerted people that there was waterlogging and formation of potholes along with the repairing of roads and sewer lines by the Public Works Department on both sides of the road in the direction Nangloi and Mundka and vice versa in the Rohtak Road.
• At Dhaula Kuan, Rajokri and Mahipalpur, cars were inching kilometres.
• The most alarming site was the Zakhira Railway Underpass in Road No 40, which was severely water logged causing the diversion.
• The slowing down of traffic was also experienced on the Hindon Elevated Road, a 10.3 km long, sixlane, elevated Expressway in the Ghaziabad of the Uttar Pradesh. Traffic ground to a halt on Wednesday night in Rajnagar Extension where the Elevated Road ends as cars slumped in queues of traffic for hours. One of the major roads in Noida was the expressway where traffic jams were quite overwhelming.
• Delhi Traffic Police informed that X traffic travelling to and fro Shastri Nagar- KD Chowk is diverted to Chaudhary Nahar Singh Marg and vice versa.
• Snarls in south Delhi too were intractable in parts such as Sarai Kale Khan, the road to the AIIMS and Safdarjung hospital and the Ashram area.
• A user has written in Patparganj, that because of the rain, several people are still held up in traffic jams. Earlier on there are cars that are having trouble making progress."
• Residents of Shalimar Bagh and Shahdara commuting equally had the same problems.
• X handle of Delhi Traffic Police has been regularly tweeting about the roads that are affected because of Incidents caused by rains.

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Gurugram traffic

• A truck burdened with beer bottles fell into a crater because a section of the road collapsed on Wednesday night after the onslaught of unprecedented rainfall that paralyzed Gurugram, even as officials on Thursday warned offices to allow workers to work at home.
• The rain at the Narsinghpur stretch of the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway and areas around Basai and Golf Course Extension Road were under water.
• Roads in the front of the parking lot of Rajiv Chowk, Sheetla Mata road, Sadar Bazaar, Bus Adda road and roads of neighbouring colonies were flooded as well.
• According to reports, water logging has been witnessed in Basai Chowk to Khandsa, Sanjay Gram Road, Sohna Road, Subhash Chowk and in Sectors 30, 31, 40, 45, 47, 51, and 22, 23 4, 5, 12, 13 and 48.
• More than 7 to 8-km-long traffic jam at the national highway number 48 at Narsinghpur to Rajokri in Delhi on Wednesday night.
• There was approximately 2.5 feet of water collected at Subhash Chowk and people were stuck in a jam up until 2 am.

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