NEW DELHI, May 14 -- Ongoing repair work on a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway corridor near Ghazipur has turned the area into a daily bottleneck over the past few days, leaving commuters stranded in long vehicle queues for hours.

According to officials aware of the matter, repair work by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is underway on the Ghaziabad-to-Sarai Kale Khan carriageway, resulting in lane restrictions and slower traffic movement on the heavily used corridor connecting east Delhi to other National Capital Region (NCR) cities. The work is expected to continue till June 2026.

Commuters travelling from Ghaziabad towards Delhi said repairs on the carriageway -- first on the Ghaziabad-bound side and now on the D...