India, Sept. 9 -- A detailed traffic audit of Rajiv Chowk, one of Gurugram's busiest multi-leg junctions, has flagged major safety and congestion risks stemming from poor geometry, misplaced islands, erratic signage and routine violations, warning that these conditions create a high-risk environment that both snarls traffic and endangers pedestrians and motorists.

Based on site surveys and conflict-point mapping, the study recorded seven crossing conflicts, 12 merging conflicts and 13 diverging conflicts-indicators of the intersection's complexity and the likelihood of collisions-and highlighted that a new entry near Exit 10 channels heavy straight traffic into the chowk during peak hours, with the evening peak there recorded at 1,043 ve...