Traffic in Bucharest returned to normal - that is, to hellish conditions - on Monday mainly due to heavy rain, broken traffic lights and road improvement works in several parts of the city. According to local police officers, the traffic was blocked for several hours in several important squares. Traffic lights in Districts 2, 3, 4 and 6 were reported as broken, Romanian news agency NewsIn informs.

This comes after a week of calm as the NATO Summit Bucharest was the host of last week sent many residents out of the city.

Police declared that driver's indiscipline increased the chaos on the streets in several neighborhoods. In downtown Bucharest, several drivers blocked a key crossroads and thus managed to block the whole traffic.