Overview
- Vehicular movement slowed to a crawl or stalled for hours on multiple stretches, with the ghat section near the Amrutanjan Bridge among the worst affected.
- Highway authorities intermittently halted traffic in timed intervals to regulate flow through choke points in the hills.
- Reports from motorists cited late-night tarmac-laying near a toll plaza that shut two lanes, heavy trucks occupying overtaking lanes, and a breakdown that funneled cars into a single lane in Borghat.
- A serious crash near Gahunje involved a Mercedes striking a parked container, leaving four people severely injured and hospitalized at Somatane Phata.
- Commuters complained about poor lane discipline and a lack of real-time advisories, urging immediate traffic-management fixes and longer-term capacity measures such as added trains, buses, and expressway widening.