Being a metropolitan, traffic is integral to the city, with people coming in for education purposes, jobs, travel,  shopping, etc. Your time estimation of reaching out to the destined place is most often met with the unavoidable circumstances of traffic jams. Sometimes, traffic even becomes a part of excuses if you turn out to be late someday. Perhaps, everyone in the city is aware of it.

The traffic becomes more intense once during the morning, certainly at the start of office hours, and again in the evening during the end of it. People coming by train, buses, trams or taxi, tends to be frustrated at every signal. Due to heavy traffic, people even miss their trains. The situation becomes worse during the rainy season. Water gets logged, and reaches out to the streets thereby creating a street pool with knee-length water, slowing down the pace of the fast-moving city.

Some of the choke points of traffic in Kolkata are the seven-point crossing in Park Circus, Diamond Harbour Road that passes by Taratala, Behala and Thakurpukur, Garia Main Road, the four-point crossing in front of Javadpur police station, Nagerbazar to Dumdum station, and so on. If you are new to the city, suggestions for avoiding such routes would certainly be given.

The numerous stores and footpath dwellers, and the enormous crowd also contributes to the prolonged traffic. Hence, making such a scenario unavoidable during the time of rush.