pune a rash of potholes and the civic bodys desperate efforts to temporarily fill them resulted in traffic snarls on the busy karve road and paud road for most part of tuesday with the continuous rains adding to the misery hundreds of citizens including officegoers and students were left wringing their hands in despair as traffic moved at snails pace the problem spilled over onto other roads as well though the scene was not as chaotic as it was on karve road traffic police officials of the kothrud division said the repair work of the potholes near the paud phata flyover undertaken by the pune municipal corporation pmc caused bottlenecks and subsequent congestion from karve statue to the paud phata flyover and further up to sndt college and deccan it took vehicles nearly 45 minutes to an hour to travel the 15km distance from the statue to the flyover assistant police inspector s s raut of the kothrud traffic division said the pmc is using paver blocks to repair the potholes on the road from paud phata to sndt college while half the work has been done the remaining will be completed on tuesday night the pmc has been unable to asphalt the potholeridden roads because of the continuous rain vehicles moved slowly to avoid the potholes and this had a cascading effect on traffic at other junctions the problem was all the more acute during the peak morning hours he said several people who were stuck in the traffic jam on karve road in the morning blamed the bad roads and mismanagement of traffic for their woes simply because of the potholes below the paud phata flyover there is a traffic jam for over one hour ameya kunte wrote on the social networking page of the pune traffic police the fiveminute distance from the shivaji statue to dashbhuja ganapati took me 40 minutes wrote krupa ajansondkar while many commuters complained that the traffic signals were not working traffic officials said the signals were deliberately turned off because they have a specific time cycle the traffic policemen manually controlled the traffic at the junction they said deputy commissioner of police traffic vishwas pandhre while admitting that the traffic jam on karve road was due to the potholes said there was no major traffic congestion traffic was affected on other roads too on tuesday evening there was a major jam on j m road and fergusson college road he said gauri kanetkar who lives on paud road told toi that it took her more than two hours to reach her office located on tilak road from her residence i usually reach office within halfanhour but this morning the traffic was blocked from anandnagar on paud road to paud phata she said