Choke point: Three years after building work started in Connaught Place, the 事業／計画（する） is still in the 炭坑，オーケストラ席s

By Mail Today Reporter

Published: 23:41 BST, 16 January 2013 | Updated: 23:41 BST, 16 January 2013

The heart of Delhi continues to be clogged, thanks to the never-ending construction work that has thrown traffic movement out of gear.

Traffic jams and disruptions have become the norm in Connaught Place for those trying to enter or 出口 its busy marketplace, 特に during the 週末.

Haphazard construction work has resulted in minor or major work 存在 carried out at almost all 入ること／参加（者） and 出口 points and construction-関係のある 器具／備品 and 構成要素 is strewn all over the place.

The 炭坑，オーケストラ席 at the mouth of Kharak Singh Marg

Traffic builds up on the Outer Circle of Connaught Place

訪問者s can 推定する／予想する an even tougher time 運動ing through the market once the 地方自治体の 機関 starts work on laying bitumen on roads いつか later this month.

Some of the work going on in Connaught Place is just cosmetic in nature. There's also some construction work on the subway, but the major traffic disruption is 存在 原因（となる）d by the laying of 地下組織の cables and pipelines for electricity, 遠隔通信s, 解雇する／砲火／射撃, water 供給（する） and irrigation.

Work on the 選び出す／独身 1.2km tunnel 存在 dug up to 融通する these pipelines has been going on for the past two years and によれば the 議長／司会者 of the NDMC, Archana Arora, the 復古／返還 of Connaught Place is likely to go on until April-May, which means 訪問者s can 推定する／予想する to see CP turned upside 負かす／撃墜する for a few more months.

訪問者s have already been 直面するing trouble 借りがあるing to the endless bumper-to-bumper 乗り物 列s.
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"Visiting the marketplace in one's own 乗り物 during the 週末 is impossible if one doesn't have a driver.

"Just coming in and out of Connaught Place during the 週末s easily takes more than half an hour," Shonali Chakraborty, a 訪問者, said.

Major choke points inside the marketplace 含む the stretches outside Regal Cinema, 近づく Plaza Cinema, the arterial roads that open up at Panchkuian Road and Barakhamba Road.

The radial that leads to Barakhamba Road where traffic is bumper to bumper at 頂点（に達する） times

The radial i s shut for traffic and used for an 出口 only

The NDMC, however, （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that the disruptions 予定 to construction are 極小の and traffic flow in the marketplace is 一般に smooth.

"There are disruptions at some points in Connaught Place but they are ごくわずかの. The construction work in the area is 存在 carried out without any major 妨害s to the traffic flow," NDMC spokesperson Amit Prasad said.

After 行方不明の several 最終期限s, the redevelopment of CP was 推定する／予想するd to be over by December last year, but major 復古／返還 work is still incomplete on two of the 12 封鎖するs and work on the tunnels is still on.

More disruptions are likely once the NDMC starts to lay the roads that have worn out or have been 損失d by the construction work. NDMC 公式の／役人s say they were waiting for the 天候 to get わずかに warmer before starting work.