How the hill stations of our dreams are living a traffic nightmare

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How long can driving 5km take? Whether it’s Dharamshala, Mussoorie, Manali or Shimla, this could be an hours-long grind through jam-packed roads. For locals, this means a season of hardship as they factor in jam-time in their daily schedules. And for the sick, it can prove fatal, as two deaths in Nainital and Mussoorie this month showed

When she started from Delhi at 5am, Google Maps told Prianshi she would reach her Himachal homestay overlooking the Sutlej at a village near Sunni, 80km from Shimla, by 2pm. “Eventually, I reached around 6.30pm. It took us six hours to reach the outskirts of

Shimla

from Delhi and almost the same time to get to Sunni from Shimla,” says Prianshi, who travelled in early June after her daughter’s board exams.

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