Metro or no Metro, traffic bottlenecks of City Beautiful cry for attention

Even as the debate on whether Chandigarh needs a Metro system or not continues, the traffic on certain points and chowks keeps accumulating, making them bottlenecks of the city.

The Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) agency in its survey identified the busiest junctions across where it suggested the construction of underpasses, while calculating the peak approach. A peak approach of the passenger car unit has been calculated on all fifteen junctions in the study. Peak approach means vehicles approaching these points during peak hours, and the vehicles were calculated in terms of the passenger car unit (PCU). One bus was calculated to be equivalent to three cars, one car as one and two wheeler as 0.5 car.