Hours-long traffic snarl-up brings Amballur in Thrissur to a grinding halt

Traffic connected the nationalist road adjacent Amballur came to a grinding halt connected Saturday, with vehicles stranded for hours successful 1 of the worst gridlocks the country has seen successful caller weeks. The enactment of vehicles stretched each the mode up to Puthukkad town, leaving hundreds of motorists frustrated and exhausted.

The congestion, which began successful the afternoon, persisted good into the evening contempt efforts by the Puthukkad constabulary to easiness the snarl-up. Passengers said it took much than fractional an hr conscionable to transverse the Amballur stretch. Even ambulances and indispensable work vehicles struggled to marque their mode done the chaos.

The concern worsened adjacent the Puthukkad Signal junction wherever the postulation concern made it hard for vehicles to participate the railway presumption roadworthy and Kanjupadam road. Weekend unreserved coupled with the ongoing underpass operation connected the road that restricts question of vehicles to a azygous lane led to the crisis.

“Every play it’s the aforesaid nightmare here,” a motorist said, summing up the wide frustration.