Andheri resident Kunal Chaudhari, who was stuck in traffic for five hours, told mid-day, “I departed from Marol around 5.30 pm on Wednesday, expecting a routine drive towards Pune. But what should have been a normal journey soon turned into a nightmare. By 6.15 pm, I had approached Chedda Nagar junction on the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd Link Road, near the Eastern Express Highway. From the signal itself, I could see an endless line of vehicles stuck on the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd flyover. Nothing was moving.”

Realising the flyover was completely jammed, Chaudhari decided to use the road below instead. “But within minutes, I was trapped. After moving barely 100 metres, traffic came to a complete standstill. For the next four hours, my car was practically frozen in the same spot. In all that time, I barely moved another 100 metres,” he said.