chennai motorists returning home from work and those on their weekend night out were hassled on saturday evening due to traffic congestion on arterial gst road anna salai and old mahabalipuram road due to president droupadi murmus visit and movement of chief minister m k stalins convoy to the airport and back the president who landed at chennai airport at 645pm was received by chief minister m k stalin one lane of the route from airport to raj bhavan was blocked for close to 20 minutes till the presidents convoy reached raj bhavan around 730pm this caused traffic pileup at different points on gst road near the airport kathipara flyover guindy madhya kailash saidapet teynampet nandanam kasturba nagar indira nagar and a few other areasthe vehicle movement remained slow for an hour after the roadblock for vip movement was removed people got stuck on the roads for close to an hour a concert at ymca in nandanam too caused further traffic snarls on anna salai s ramesh a motorist said that traffic was slow at saidapet and nandanam and it was difficult to enter anna salai from the t nagar area there was traffic congestion near raj bhavan around 730pm and vehicles were piled up from madhya kailash to the indira nagar area on the it corridor swetha who works in a private firm reached her workplace late for her shift it took two hours for me to travel from porur to nandanam there was a traffic jam on kathipara flyover guindy saidapet it took half an hour to cross saidapet junction the interior roads in cit nagar burkit road were also blocked a traffic police officer said vip movement slowed down the traffic as it was peak hour one lane was closed for movement of the presidents convoy from the airport to raj bhavan