DHAULA KUAN
One of the busiest interchanges in the city, Dhaula Kuan services thousands of commuters every day. But the road here is riddled with potholes. Adding to the troubles is the adjoining Ridge Road, where the Metro Airport Express Line is being constructed along the central verge. Result: barely one lane is available for traffic. Regular commuters say they avoid this stretch now. “If I have to go home during the peak hours, I take a detour through SP Marg to reach my home in New Rajinder Nagar,” says Ramesh Puri, who works in Gurgaon.

OUTER RING ROAD
The Public Works Department (PWD) is constructing a flyover that is scheduled for completion next year. Till then, however, the ongoing work leads to constant traffic jams. Although traffic signals have been put up every 500 metres on the stretch, most do not work. The condition of the road is equally bad.

AIIMS FLYOVER
PWD officials admit this stretch gets choked with traffic every day, particularly during peak hours. The reason, according to them, is the Capital’s vehicle population that has “simply exploded” in the past decade. PWD has now engaged a consultant to carry out a traffic and transportation study to prepare a whole new model for the intersection.

ITO JUNCTION
The traffic police have tried every trick in the trade on this stretch, including deploying additional staff and using technically advanced traffic lights. But no precaution seems to be able to stand up to the might of traffic from East Delhi and Ghaziabad flowing into Central Delhi, via ITO. And with Metro construction on Vikas Marg, a major arterial road, it is par for the course, almost, that the ITO junction is choked with vehicles at most times of day.

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