Mother-of-all traffic jams at Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway yesterday

August 07, 2015 18:43

The movement of kanwarias coupled with water-logging and a breakdown of many vehicles triggered a massive traffic jam yesterday morning. The snarl that lasted more than three hours extended from Shankar Chowk in Gurgaon to the Mahipalpur flyover in Delhi.

Kanwarias is an annual pilgrimage of devotees of Shiva to Hindu pilgrimage places of Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri in Uttarakhand and Sultanganj in Bihar to fetch holy waters of Ganga.

Pic: The massive traffic snarl at the Delhi-Gurgaon toll plaza. Photograph: PTI.

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