pune incessant rain and peak hour rush made monday morning a long and arduous travel for many people across the city spent unusually long hours on the road navigating potholes and generally slowmoving traffic nonworking signals and bus breakdowns added to the chaos congestion was reported in areas like bund garden yerwada sancheti hospital bridge at shivajinagar university junction sangamwadi maldhakka chowk regional transport office golf club chowk hingne budruk hinjewadi and even the katraj dehu road bypass among other areas traffic jams were reported from senapati bapat road and sus road at many of the typically busy junctions constables were forced to manage the flow of vehicles manually the chaos continued till well past noon compelling many to reschedule their meetings or even cancel themfor hinjewadibound nilesh nehete it was a frustrating ride of two and a half hours from chandni chowk a commute that usually takes not more than 20 minutes in a company bus expressing his helplessness nehete said our bus travels via bavdhan on monday there was complete traffic jam after the audi showroom at the foot of the sus bridge a big container truck and an earth mover parked on one side reduced the road width to half this resulted in a long buildup of vehicles i started at my usual time of 915am but could reach the office only around 1145am once you get stuck you cant even think of turning backbalewadi resident ankit garg suffered the double whammy of driving through baner road and pashan road both totally jammed till late in the afternoon garg said i was scheduled to meet a person on boat club road i left home keeping enough time at hand but things on road were worse than i had estimated i took a diversion on to pashan road from baner road when one of my friends alerted me of a traffic jam there but i guess it was really bad luck for me that traffic was slow moving even on banerpashan link road and then at pashan circle where a bus had broken down the university chowk as usual was congested i reached my meeting spot almost 45 minutes latekamalakar takawale police inspector traffic with chatushrungi traffic division said the heavy volume of vehicles made it more difficult to clear the jam on baner road the traffic extended up to yashada and commuters took almost three signal cycles to reach the junction we were forced to evacuate the vehicles manually and things eased out only around 1pm intermittent rain throughout the day had a spillover effect on those commuting in the afternoon alka bhosale a resident of satara road said her granddaughters school bus got delayed i was expecting my granddaughter to return around 3pm from her school in camp but tracking the driver of the bus revealed that it was going to be late by more than 30 minutes she saidmeanwhile the busy fc road was completely clogged in the evening with long queues of