New Delhi, Aug 24 (Inditop.com) Trees and branches blown down during the storm on Friday were still lying on the roads of the capital Monday morning, leading to traffic snarls and accidents.
Despite the claim of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi control room that all roads had been cleared of fallen trees and branches, they were clearly blocking carriageways on busy roads.
There was more than one branch lying on south Delhi’s Outer Ring Road in front of the Indian Institute of Technology campus, leading to accidents and traffic pile-ups.
A motorcylist who was being squeezed between a fallen branch and an auto rickshaw on the other lane took a hard spill on the stretch as he was going towards Panchsheel Park. The auto rickshaw driver, who stopped and dragged the branch off the road as passersby helped up the fallen rider, said: “I have been seeing fallen branches all the way from Janakpuri. Nobody has cleaned anything.”
Megha Suri, a doctor who had stopped to see if the motorcyclist needed medical attention, wondered: “Why do we pay road tax if we have to run an obstacle course between fallen trees and potholes all the time?”
The combination of obstacles also narrowed the busy stretch from three lanes to one on the carriageway moving towards the airport, and the result was a traffic snarl that stretched for over four km in the morning rush hour.
