Commuters faced a harrowing time as traffic was halted for 22 minutes during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival in the city tonight.
Serpentine queues were witnessed at intersections on the route taken by the Prime Minister’s convoy to reach the Punjab Raj Bhawan.
Modi reached the airport at 9.50 pm after which traffic at Tribune Chowk was halted at 9.57 pm. Within a few minutes, the queue of vehicles stretched to over a km.
The convoy moved towards the Punjab Raj Bhawan crossing through the Hallo Majra light point, Tribune Chowk and the Transport light point in Sector 26.
The traffic at each intersection falling on the route was halted before the convoy passed from there.
The barricades put up to stop vehicles at Tribune Chowk were lifted at 10.19 pm. Bhanu Pratap Singh, one of the commuters stuck in the traffic jam, said halting traffic for a few minutes was justified, but the 22-minute wait was too much. “Had it been daytime, it would have led to a chaos on the roads,” he said. It took nearly 15 more minutes for the situation on roads to return to normal.
Cops miscalculated time?
It seems the UT traffic police miscalculated the time due to which commuters were made to wait for 22 minutes. During the Prime Minister’s earlier visits to the city, the traffic was halted for around 10 minutes only.
