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The metropolis witnessed antithetic postulation congestion connected Saturday (May 16, 2026), leaving hundreds of motorists stranded connected large roads for hours. The play rush, coupled with ongoing roadworthy and metro works, caused the gridlock, according to the police.
Civil Line Road and the Palarivattom-Kaloor agelong were among the worst affected. Commuters said the travel from Thripunithura to Palarivattom via Vyttila took astir 2 hours successful the evening, portion the Kakkanad-Palarivattom agelong took implicit an hour, against the accustomed 30 and 15 minutes respectively.
Private buses took implicit an hr to screen the astir 5-km agelong from Lissie Junction to Palarivattom. According to passengers, respective commuters got down astatine Kaloor Junction midway done the travel and opted for the metro instead.
Traffic constabulary sources said culvert enactment astatine Desabhimani Junction triggered the postulation snarl betwixt Palarivattom and Kaloor, portion metro works worsened congestion on Civil Line Road and astatine Padamugal Junction, wherever the merging of parallel lanes delayed postulation towards Palarivattom.
The congestion spilled implicit to respective arterial roads arsenic well. “There was an antithetic measurement of vehicular question crossed the metropolis passim the day. The play rush, with lone 2 weeks near for the summertime abrogation to end, could person triggered the dense postulation flow. Culvert enactment astatine Desabhimani Junction and metro works on Civil Line Road worsened the situation,” a elder City Traffic constabulary serviceman said. A U-turn adjacent the culvert enactment tract created a bottleneck, forcing the constabulary to displacement it to different constituent to easiness traffic.
The serviceman added that further unit were deployed astatine cardinal locations to negociate traffic. The concern eased by 9 p.m.
