John Wilbert & Rabindranath Biswas
Port Blair, Nov 28: Huge traffic jam was witnessed in the stretch from Sippighat to
JodaKilan Road after NH Road repair work began nearly a week ago.
According to the information, last week the repair work of a Road situated near Sippighat Junction started.
The repair work covered almost one side of the road between Sippighat to JodaKilan on Andaman Trunk Road due to digging of the road by NHIDCL Contractor and which reportedly narrowed the passage and which in turn caused the traffic jam.
The super busy traffic on the road which connects the Port Blair town with rural villages of South Andaman district as well as the North & Middle Andaman District is being seriously affected by one side road blockage that too in an unplanned manner.
All buses to rural villages of South Andaman and long route express buses including goods carriers travel through the area and traffic remains busy on the stretch on almost all days.
On the other hand, after the closure of one side of the road, snarl-up and chaos was reported from the adjacent old road which is narrow and not enough for two way traffic. Some of the regular users of the road requested the Director of General Police to provide an adequate number of traffic police at both the locations for proper regulation of traffic, which is till now being guided by labourers, who often leave vehicles from both sides causing the jams.
