Water outflow holds Ring Road captive
New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- For the second day in a row, traffic on the Ring Road skirting the Yamuna in north and northeast Delhi crawled at a near-standstill as floodwater submerged multiple stretches, leaving commuters stranded and paralysing one of the Capital's most critical arteries.
Several lanes of the busy corridor - particularly around the Kashmere Gate Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Qudsia Bagh, Nigam Bodh Ghat, Monastery Market and Chandgi Ram Akhara - remained under nearly two feet of water from Wednesday night through Thursday evening.
The inundation forced police to impose diversions, pump water off the road and issue repeated traffic advisories, but movement remained sluggish late into the night. The flooding outside Kashmere Ga...
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