Srinagar, Jan 6: Only one-way traffic will continue on the national highway, connecting the
Kashmir valley with the rest of the country while historic Mughal road and
Srinagar-Leh national highway remained closed.
Meanwhile, roads leading to dozens of far flung and remote
areas, including near the Line of Control (LoC) are closed due to fresh
snowfall during the past 24 hours.
One-way traffic on 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu will continue till further orders to avoid accident and traffic jam, a traffic police official told. Today on Saturday vehicles will ply from Srinagar to Jammu and no vehicle, including security force convoy, will be allowed from opposite direction, he said.
He said there was apprehension of fresh landslides in Ramban to Ramsu area because of prediction or rain. Therefore, he said, it was decided that only one-way traffic will be allowed on the highway till improvement in the weather. We were allowing light vehicles from both sides and heavy vehicles from one side only. But due to landslides threat only one-way traffic was allowed from yesterday.
However, he said two way light vehicles will be allowed from both sides only after receiving green signal from the traffic police officials and Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
The historic 86-km-long Mughal road, connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region remained closed despite clearance of snow at most of the places. There was fresh snowfall on Friday. Traffic would not be restored as the road is very slippery and accumulation snow.
The national highway, linking Ladakh region with Kashmir remained shut due to accumulation and slippery road conditions, particularly at Zojila pass, where centre has cleared construction of a tunnel to make it all weather road.
Dozens of roads, connecting far flung and remote villages with their respective district and tehsil headquarters in Kupwara and Bandipora were closed due to fresh snowfall during the past 24 hours. The authorities have also issued avalanche warning in the avalanche prone areas. UNI
One-way traffic on 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu will continue till further orders to avoid accident and traffic jam, a traffic police official told. Today on Saturday vehicles will ply from Srinagar to Jammu and no vehicle, including security force convoy, will be allowed from opposite direction, he said.
He said there was apprehension of fresh landslides in Ramban to Ramsu area because of prediction or rain. Therefore, he said, it was decided that only one-way traffic will be allowed on the highway till improvement in the weather. We were allowing light vehicles from both sides and heavy vehicles from one side only. But due to landslides threat only one-way traffic was allowed from yesterday.
However, he said two way light vehicles will be allowed from both sides only after receiving green signal from the traffic police officials and Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
The historic 86-km-long Mughal road, connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region remained closed despite clearance of snow at most of the places. There was fresh snowfall on Friday. Traffic would not be restored as the road is very slippery and accumulation snow.
The national highway, linking Ladakh region with Kashmir remained shut due to accumulation and slippery road conditions, particularly at Zojila pass, where centre has cleared construction of a tunnel to make it all weather road.
Dozens of roads, connecting far flung and remote villages with their respective district and tehsil headquarters in Kupwara and Bandipora were closed due to fresh snowfall during the past 24 hours. The authorities have also issued avalanche warning in the avalanche prone areas. UNI
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