Nellore: The presence of the Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was enough to galvanise the NHAI engineers to get the second road at the breached site ready on Saturday.
Earlier, a single road was readied with the help of boulders, but Mr Naidu exerted pressure on the NHAI officials to ready the second road after observing the hardships being faced by commuters on Friday.
The road was opened to traffic late on Saturday night, much to the relief of hundreds of vehicles stranded on either sides of the road for the last two days.
In fact, traffic on the National Highway was moving at a snail's pace and it was taking over three hours for a vehicle to cross the makeshift road laid on the breached NH.
The situation was such that Srinivasa Raghavan, a businessman decided to take a detour through Podalakur, Saidapuram and Gudur to reach Chennai after noticing vehicles stranded for kilometres till the toll plaza near Venkatachalam on Saturday.
Another regular commuter to Nellore, P. Syamsundar of Chennai, left his car in Chennai and boarded Charminar Express after he heard about the lengthy line of vehicles, all the way up to Nayudupeta. Meanwhile, traffic on Nayudupeta and Kota road came to a grinding halt after part of the road was washed away by the overflowing Swarna Mukhi river at Gudali.
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