jaipur travellers were stranded for over five hours in a traffic jam on national highway8 near kotputli on sunday it was only after efforts by police that the traffic movement resumed around 4pm the jam started at 11am when a heavy queue of vehicles was seen on nh8 according to a senior police officer vehicles were stuck for more than 5 kms on both sides of the highwaypolice said the jam was due to vegetable vendors who unloaded vegetables on the road since a local mandi is located near kotputlibansur road police administration reached the spot around noon and began to clear the jam the point where the jam was witnessed is a road junction that leads traffic towards kotputli city alwar jaipur and delhi the trucks were not parked properly on the road and this added to the chaos finally by 4pm the traffic jam was eased said a senior police officeranil jain a passenger told toi it was a tiring experience as i took a bus to jaipur from delhi at 7am we reached jaipur at 5pm government agencies always talk about toll tax but they seldom care for those travelling on the highways