Hong Kong police reopened one of the city’s main thoroughfares to traffic on Tuesday after clearing barricades erected by democracy protesters who have occupied streets within the heart of the Chinese-ruled city for 2 weeks. The protests have caused traffic chaos across the Asian financial hub as demonstrators blocked off main roads on either side of the harbor, angering taxi drivers and commuters, and inflicting frustration among various others compact by the move.

Hundreds of Hong Kong police used sledgehammers and chainsaws to dismantle pro-democracy barricades close to government offices and also the city’s centre on Tuesday, every day when clashes stone-broke out as anti-protest teams tried to reclaim roads. Taxi drivers had vulnerable to get rid of the barricades by Wednesday if protesters had not done therefore by then. By noon on Tuesday, Queensway Road was reopened allowing traffic, as well as faculty and tour buses, to flow straight through to the Central downtown that’s home to international corporations like HSBC Holdings and commonplace hired.