KOLKATA: The Kolkata traffic authorities confronted a double problem on Friday.
While significant arterial streets in south Kolkata continued to stay waterlogged, projecting traffic out of equipment, folks desperate to revive economic actions contributed to slow motion as well as congestions in a number of crossings of town.
Behala-Ekbalpore stretch has been the worst hit because of waterlogging, combined with Lake Gardens, Jodhpur Park, Dhakuria, Babu Bagan along with part of CR Avenue that observed slow traffic movement in the first half of this afternoon because of standing water.
The perils of workplace goers stayed even at the night in Behala and Lake Gardens.
The waterlogging on Diamond Harbour Road — in Taratala and involving Ekbalpore and Mominpore — supposed that visitors movement stayed slow with automobiles being redirected to some other flank.
KMC used large pumps to drain water out in the lanes and bylanes of all Mominpore.
The pumps, positioned in the center of DH Road, restricted vehicle motion to one lane.
“Mominpore crossing was not able to deal with this strain in the daytime and vehicles gathered all of the way up to Majerhat Bridge,” said an ACP.
Cops needed to maintain Kidderpore-bound sign green for an extended length to traffic.
Lalbazar said motion was dumb but denied that there wasn’t any jam.