The major stumbling block is the growth and burgeoning of the unplanned city. Another impediment is the surfeit of vehicular traffic.

The traffic bottlenecks during peak hours make confusions worse confounded and whenever there is a traffic snarl, the drivers who are elevated avatars or incarnations of "khalasis" do whatever they like flouting traffic rules. As a result the problem becomes more complicated and the auto-rickshaw drivers wend their way in lanes or narrow by-lanes or take the short-cut compounding the snarl and the traffic constable looks helpless. In most cases he looks like a green horn having no training in the matter.

During processions and rallies, traffic control becomes the major casualty and even introduction of the electronic control system has failed to yield the desired results, rather the problem has aggravated showing no sign of abatement.