Chennai: After four-day holiday, Chennai-Tiruchy National Highway (NH) witnessed heavy traffic, impacting GST road and arterial roads in the city, keeping traffic police on their toes on Monday.
According to police personnel, there was a heavy traffic jam from Chengalpet toll plaza to Perungalathur, giving immense inconvenience to passengers.
Even as huge number of police personnel was deployed to regulate the traffic, it did not augur well with the vehicles moving at snail’s pace.
"Particularly, the stretch between Chengalpet and Tambaram was choked with vehicles, which came to a halt by one to two hours. One can travel on this stretch covering a distance of 27 km and it usually takes only 45 to 50 minutes, but it took three hours to reach Tambaram from Chengalpet," said R Sekar, a passenger, who reached the city. He could not go to office, as he reached his home by around 11 am on Monday, he lamented.
Police said that it all started with Chengalpet toll plaza, Maraimalai Nagar, Urapakkam, Kuduvancherry and Perungalathur.
Further, since some road works are in progress in the stretch, it also added to traffic woes.
Police also pointed that the crew of omni buses would not usually conform to traffic rules and stop the buses in the middle of the road leading to traffic chaos.
