Cancel Sunday Trip To Connaught Place

Two Games events, cycling and marathon, will make Connaught Place out of bounds to pedestrians and motorists on Sunday (10 am-6 pm). On Saturday, Parliament Street and Rajpath will be closed (6.30 am10 am) for a race walk.Drop all your plans of visiting Connaught Place (CP) this Sunday.

Two Commonwealth Games events -cycling and marathon -will make the area out of bounds for pedestrians and motorists from Sunday morning. Following this, all shops and restaurants at Janpath and CP will invariably remain closed.

On Saturday, a 20 kilometre `race walk' will be held at Parliament Street and Rajpath from 6.30 am to 10 am, making it out of bounds for vehicular and pedestrian movement.

The traffic police have ringed Connaught Place and parts of India Gate with `iron-made security fences', which means you will not be allowed to even walk in the corridors of the shopping hub.