CHENNAI: Vehicular movement on the Tiruchy-Chennai National Highway came to a grinding halt on Sunday, with commuters facing extreme hardship due to a massive traffic jam stretching from Perungalathur to Tambaram.

The congestion, which began in the evening, is primarily a result of a large influx of residents returning to Chennai after the long weekend for Ayudha Pooja and the quarterly school holidays.

The situation has been severely exacerbated by slow-moving, ongoing expansion work on the Irummbuliyur bridge near Perungalathur. This bottleneck has caused vehicles to crawl inch by inch, turning a typically short journey into an ordeal.

Reports indicate that vehicles travelling from southern districts towards Chennai are taking anywhere from one and a half to two hours to cover the me

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