Kolkata: stretch 1SQ-KM who maroon from Jalan VIP and Chinar Park on the main arterial road of the new city – neck-inside in place – Traffic movements crash into and from the airport on Thursday.
And it was not only leaflets left in two-to-three hours of long traffic vines and finally lost their flight, even the pilot and the plane crew was trapped in a situation, which led to flight delays.
According to sources, there were no flights that took off on time after 11 nights and until night, around 50 odd flights were delayed.
“Some passengers were delayed and our customer service telephone lines were flooded with calls from anxious passengers while stuck in the traffic outside the airport.
The crew and captain of several flights were trapped in the traffic too, which caused a delay in departure,” airline officials said in Kolkata.
Although the airport authority cannot provide data on the total number of no-shows, a high-ranking official of the airline said: “A number of good passengers missed their flights across the airline.
A large number of passengers are also rescheduled to the flight later days or several other days.” Passengers complained that They took whatever between one and a half to two hours to cross the stretch of 5 km between Baguiati and the airport because the vehicle crawled along the VIP road was flooded.
At least 30 cars and three government buses have been broken down in areas that are increasingly strangling traffic.
Some passengers leave a taxi and walk until the airport while some are seen reaching the terminal on a bicycle.
“I have planned to celebrate my father’s 70th birthday with him at his North Bengal House.
My flight at 12:30 and I started far from my house south.
I was stuck on the VIP road for two and a half hours.
When I reached The airport at 1:30 p.m., the flight was lost, “Nishi said, who booked another ticket for Saturday.
Waterlogging in Chinar Park and on stretch road services in Haldiram more problems in this part of the city.
After two heavy rain, it was relatively dry on Friday but there were no signs of storm water which receded from the area.
In fact, the police had to seal the road between Park Chinar and Haldirams and the expanse of the VIP road which was bound by the airport after a number of vehicles began to strike there.
“There isn’t much we can do.
We tried our best to divert traffic from new cities through Joramandir and Rajarhat Road and the airport bound traffic in VIP Road was made for layers on one lane on a kolkata wing.
But there is so much water where – And the vehicle movement is very slow, “said a senior officer of the Bidhannagar Traffic Department.
Bidhannagar corporate officials said the water from the haldirams crossing can be watered only after the water from Chinar Park Resedes.
But with Bagjola Canal overflowing, the water from the Chinar Park cannot be pumped out there.
It was only after the water from Canal Bagjola began to recede in the afternoon that the work could begin, said a civilian official.
(With input from Susan Chakraborty)