Puttur: Heavy winds that led to uprooting of several trees on the Shiradi Ghat stretch of road between Mangalore and Bangalore, resulted in disruption of traffic for nearly eight bours in the wee hours of Sunday.
The trees got uprooted at least in five places between Udane and Shirady. There was a serpentine queue of vehicles on either side until the road was cleared for traffic.
The main grouse of the people was that the NH authorities had failed to trim the tree branches on the roadside which has resulted in the problem during monsoons