Bhopal: MP Nagar turns into traffic choke zone

BHOPAL: MP Nagar, Bhopal’s business hub, is now the city’s traffic crawl zone.

One of the busiest stretches in MP Nagar — from Board Office Square to Jyoti Talkies Square — has been blocked due to the ongoing Metro construction work from January 4-15. Traffic on this road is diverted to other routes and serpentine queues of vehicles were seen on all roads surrounding the area since Tuesday morning.

During peak office hours, traffic jams are a torture. In the evening, around 6.15pm, two ambulances were stuck in the traffic gridlock as cops struggled to manage the chaos. As the road from Board Office Square to Chetak Bridge has also been blocked for Metro work, traffic has been diverted into MP Nagar Zone-1 via Gurudev Gupt Square, Hotel Residency towards Chetak Bridge. Similarly, traffic from Shivaji Nagar and Hoshangabad Road towards Chetak Bridge has been diverted from Pragati Petrol Pump to MP Nagar Zone-2. The chaos worsened in the evening. Although traffic wardens/volunteers along with police worked hard, it was a losing struggle all day.