Traffic crawls as farmers block highway in Ghaziabad
The traffic chaos in Delhi, triggered by the continuing border blockade by farmers protesting the new farm laws, worsened on Thursday with more farmers joining the agitation and blocking off another key highway — the Delhi-Meerut Expressway.
One carriageway of the elevated Delhi-Meerut Expressway (NH-24), which connects Delhi to Ghaziabad, was also closed around 10am Thursday, after nearly 600 farmers belonging to Uttarakhand and parts of Uttar Pradesh sat on the road, blocking the vehicles coming from Ghaziabad to Delhi.
Since the blockade was sudden, and during the office hours, commuters going towards Delhi from Vasundhara, Vaishali, Indirapuram, Raj Nagar, and Ghaziabad had a harrowing time and were stuck in huge snarls even on the alternative routes suggested to them by the UP Police.
