NEW DELHI: Delhi Traffic Police on Wednesday issued an advisory after heavy congestion was reported on Barapulla Phase-III Elevated Road towards Barapulla and Ring Road from Noida Link Road and Mayur Vihar Phase-I.In a post on X, Delhi Traffic Police said, “Congestion on Barapulla Phase-III is not being reflected on Google Maps, due to which commuters are continuing to use this route. This has resulted in heavy traffic and a bottleneck at Barapulla Junction”.Traffic towards Barapulla and Ring Road was heavy and slow-moving. To ease the congestion, traffic from Barapulla Phase-III was being diverted towards NH-24/DND.Commuters were advised to avoid the affected stretch and take alternate routes via NH-24/DND, while traffic personnel were deployed at the spot to regulate movement.
Why is Barapulla facing congestion?
Earlier, Delhi Traffic Police said traffic from around eight to nine lanes was converging into just three lanes at a single point on the older flyover stretch.The traffic police said the Old Barapullah Flyover has three lanes, while the newly opened Phase-III flyover on the Mayur Vihar side, the Sarai Kale Khan loop and the DND loop each have around three lanes. The convergence of these roadways creates the bottleneck.The clarification came after a journalist posted about a 2-km traffic jam from Mayur Vihar towards AIIMS, claiming that even an ambulance had been caught in the congestion.The traffic snarls emerged soon after the opening of Barapulla Phase-III, which was expected to improve connectivity between Mayur Vihar and Sarai Kale Khan and ease movement towards central Delhi.
