Heavy Traffic, Toxic Air Pollution Choking Tehran’s Roads, Residents

As the pandemic-related remote working rules are being revoked gradually in Tehran, private vehicles swarm the city's streets and the specter of heavy traffic and air pollution returns. 
According to the Traffic Police Department, road traffic in Tehran has increased by 20% and the number of private cars on the roads has jumped by 18% compared to the pre-coronavirus period. 
"The city's traffic restriction has concentrated the volume of traffic in the evening rush hours," IRNA quoted the department as saying.
Tehran’s residents, on the one hand, are dismayed to see that even after all these years, the metropolis is still plagued by such traffic jams without any hope of relief.