Allahabad: The rush to head out of the city two days after the Mauni amavasya snan coupled with schools reopening after three days followed by traffic restrictions, led to traffic snarls on major city roads on Wednesday.Harried schoolchildren were the worst sufferers as they had to follow long routes to reach schools in time.With city traffic police authorities restricted traffic movements at all important crossings, commuters in city continued to suffer jams at Civil Lines, Stanley Road, UPPSC, Old GT Road, Alopibagh, Leader Road etc. The crawl continued late into the night.“The traffic police authorities have restricted vehicular movement at crossings and commuters had to cover long distance to reach their destinations,” said Manish Mehrotra adding “We were trapped in traffic jams at two spots including Subhash crossing while commuting on MG road,” he added.Another commuter Ashish Kapoor said “traffic was moving at a snail’s pace due to restrictions at crossings and we have to cover long distance’. He added “ Be it civil lines or Subhas crossing, police have barricaded crossings from one side and the commuter was forced to cover long distance” he claimed.Because of the slow movement of traffic, every major road, especially those connecting the old city with the rest of the city, witnessed traffic chaos for hours. The situation became critical after the schools got over and the parents, school buses and students on their own vehicle added to the heavy influx of traffic.Situation at Tashkent marg, Thornhill road , Stanley road Hanuman mandir, was more worse. Vinayak, a class XI student said “ police had barricaded the crossing from one side and we have to cover more distance to reach my house located at Civil Lines”.Traffic inspector, meanwhile, said that traffic restrictions were being implemented to regulate the traffic at crossings with an objective that chaostic situation should not be arisen. He, however, admitted that traffic was moving at a snail’s pace at some pockets.

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