Team-BHP - Delhi Gurgaon Expressway: 24 lanes shut, 15 km traffic jam

Was surprised to read 24 lanes. Should be the extra lanes near the toll booth I guess. All over India we can find multiple lanes on a single road that merge, de-merge which leads to traffic mess. I dont doubt their intention but what was the problem actually? Lanes not shut down properly?

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Originally Posted by srishiva (Post 3715609)

I dont doubt their intention but what was the problem actually? Lanes not shut down properly?

This was the problem -

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Originally Posted by Dry Ice (Post 3713723)

As soon as the service road and the main carriageway merged, road blocks were placed in about 100-200m to segregate the traffic - those wanting to go to cybercity had to take the left arm and those wanting to proceed further ahead (to gurgaon/manesar/jaipur) had to take the right arm. This was the problem. Huge volume of traffic criss-crossing in that shot space (circled).

If you see the video, all that criss-crossing traffic caused the hold up, after that there was virtually no traffic.

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Originally Posted by wanderernomad (Post 3715618)

From the dash video as well I can no signages. The people were crossing by memory or prior knowledge?

From prior knowledge. There were no signs to direct traffic. In the video you can spot many cars jumping sides from between the road blocks to the 'correct' side.

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Last 2 days have been relatively smooth so far and these road blocks haven't appeared back (thankfully!).

When taking an exit, I see a lot of cars taking exit at very last moment - only to choke the exit and cause a jam.

If everyone waited in line everyone would gain. The traffic jam is peoples own creation and has noting to do with car population.

This is very common in Delhi-Gurgaon