30,000 weddings in Delhi, jams all over

Traffic came to a crawl on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway on Friday night as a number of weddings had been organised in farmhouses converted to marriage venues along the highway. An estimated 30,000 weddings were performed in Delhi-NCR last night.

Thousands travelling on the busy and crucial link between Delhi and its suburb had to spend over an hour to travel a distance just a few kilometres. The situation was particularly bad between Palam crossing till Rajokri.

The Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway has been in controversy with notorious traffic jams especially at the toll plaza on the border. The Punjab and Haryana High Court had recently suspended toll collections temporarily to improve traffic flow.

Unchecked conversion of farmland into massive marriage venues along the national highway without proper parking and access, especially within the National Capital Region (NCR), have turned commuting on the highway a nightmare.

While traffic police were out to try and guide traffic, the sheer number of cars heading to the marriage venues resulted in bumper-to-bumper traffic for kilometres. With the marriage season on, more such scenes are expected unless the authorities crack down on the venues in larges public interest.