India, Jan. 31 -- The Delhi Traffic Police have recommended that interstate buses headed to North India from the Kashmere Gate Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) be diverted onto the newly opened Dehradun Expressway and Eastern Peripheral Expressway to alleviate chronic congestion on Ring Road and its adjoining corridors in north Delhi.

In a communication sent Thursday to the Delhi government's transport department and the Public Works Department (PWD), deputy commissioner of police (Traffic) Nishant Gupta proposed rerouting buses bound for states such as Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu & Kashmir away from the current path along Ring Road, Outer Ring Road, and National Highway (NH)-44.

This existing route, officials said, crea...