People stuck in traffic for hours on National Highway

The water-logged Ambala-Chandigarh National Highway was choked with traffic, forcing commuters to wait for over an hour to cover distances that they would otherwise cover in 10 minutes.

Those travelling from Patiala towards Chandigarh and Panchkula were stuck in traffic for two to three hours and the situation was similar for those travelling towards Zirakpur. The accumulated water level was pushing close to the top of the tyres of cars and made it impossible for commuters on motorcycles and scooters.

Harpreet Kaur, a resident of Derabassi who was on a two-wheeler said, “Cars are stuck badly in the traffic snarls and two-wheelers just cannot ride in the rain. Usually it takes me a maximum of 10 minutes to cross Zirakpur, but it took me an hour today.”