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Ring Road traffic is among the heaviest on any road in South Asia! This view gives you a double whammy as the flyover takes all the Ring Road traffic while the road below leads to Agra and includes all the traffic headed into Uttar Pradesh, from Delhi! Heavy traffic passes over the Ashram Chowk in Delhi. Ashram Chowk strikes terror in the heart of Delhi commuters. Located in the southeast corner of the capital, it is a busy intersection of two major roads of the city, Ring Road and Mathura Road. Few people know it gets its name from a tiny ashram located there. But the intersection is anything but tranquil. With perpetual traffic jams, convoys of smoke-belching trucks, unending construction linked to the Metro and a flyover that had to be shut for repairs only 14 years after it was built,