Overview
- Videos and commuter posts showed about a 2‑km backup on Monday on the Mayur Vihar–AIIMS stretch after the Phase‑III link opened days earlier.
- Delhi Traffic Police say the jams form where traffic from roughly eight to nine approach lanes is funneled into a three‑lane section on the old Barapullah flyover, creating an abrupt capacity mismatch.
- Police have deployed staff at merging points, begun diverting Phase‑III traffic toward NH‑24 and the DND, and held joint meetings with PWD that included drone surveys to examine lane geometry.
- Authorities say Google Maps has continued to show the new route as free‑flowing because its live‑flow system needs traffic data after a road opens, which has drawn extra vehicles onto the clogged stretch.
- The congestion is spilling onto the Ring Road, Noida–Delhi Link Road and DND, raising worries about longer travel times, emergency‑vehicle access, and whether design or configuration changes will be needed beyond short‑term measures.