Ludhiana: A major ₹6-crore plan to fix this city’s most dangerous and congested intersections has stalled in bureaucratic limbo, leaving fed-up commuters trapped in daily gridlock.The municipal corporation’s flagship road-safety project has been delayed for months after officials were forced to float the construction tenders three separate times due to a lack of corporate bidders. Local administrators have finally received a single bid for each intersection on their third attempt and now claim they will fast-track the contracts.Funded under the central govt’s National Clean Air Programme, the initiative targets 15 notorious choke points previously designated as accident “black spots.” The high-stakes overhaul is designed to eliminate illegal encroachments, realign poorly designed junctions, construct new slip lanes, and install modern traffic dividers, pedestrian crossings, and clear signage.Superintending engineer Sham Lal Gupta confirmed the civic body will bypass further bidding rounds to immediately award the contracts. Despite the sudden urgency, engineering experts warn the physical upgrades will take at least six months to complete once construction finally begins.The targeted bottlenecks span the city’s critical transit corridors, including the highly congested Jagraon Bridge Chowk, Vishwakarma Chowk, Durga Mata Mandir Chowk, and Sabzi Mandi Chowk.Frustrated residents say the infrastructure delays are costing lives and crippling daily commutes. “If these intersections need urgent renovation, then the authorities must prioritize them,” said Civil Lines resident Manish Gupta. “Other unnecessary projects can wait.”New Maya Nagar resident Veena Kapoor added that the redevelopment had been promised for years with zero progress on the ground. “Fixing these junctions is the only way to reduce chronic traffic jams and stop the rising number of accidents,” she said.