Through PTI
BANIHAL/JAMMU: The only-way site visitors resumed at the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway on Wednesday after final suspended for roughly 38-hours following a landslide in Ramban district, officers stated.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Visitors (nationwide freeway), Banihal, Asghar Malik stated the street clearance operation on the landslide-hit Sher Bibi close to Banihal was once nonetheless occurring.
Loads of cars had been left stranded at the freeway after an enormous landslide blocked the arterial highway at Sher Bibi round 2 am Tuesday.
The street clearance operation was once hampered through steady taking pictures of stones from the hillock all over the day.
“Regardless of intermittent taking pictures of stones, the street clearance companies labored arduous since this morning to make certain that the street is opened for one-way site visitors which was once allowed at round 4 pm (Wednesday),” Malik stated.
No recent site visitors was once allowed both from Srinagar or Jammu for the second one day within the morning as government serious about highway clearance operation and to transparent the stranded cars on precedence, a site visitors division respectable stated.
He stated some extra time is had to make the street two-way on the landslide hit stretch.
In the meantime, J-Ok Leader Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta requested for an opportunity of taking a site visitors vacation for an afternoon each and every week at the freeway until March 15 in order that it’s higher utilised for making some the most important maintenance and finishing a couple of crucial works for making trip at the highway a nice enjoy for the commuters.
Reviewing the site visitors state of affairs at the freeway at a gathering with site visitors government right here, Mehta made it amply transparent that during no case must trip time between the 2 capital towns exceed past seven hours on any day for mild motor cars.
The executive secretary enjoined upon the site visitors government to fortify their body of workers on all of the broken parts of the street for higher site visitors control.
He inspired upon them to turn 0 tolerance in opposition to highway aspect parking hindering site visitors drift, directing for having stringent rules in position to take care of all of the violators.
Taking inventory of the continued development works, Mehta referred to as for all out efforts to open the T5 tunnel on Panthiyal stretch of the freeway through March 15, Jaiswal Bridge through March 31 and double-lane of Ramban Flyover and Banihal Bye-pass through April 15.
BANIHAL/JAMMU: The only-way site visitors resumed at the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway on Wednesday after final suspended for roughly 38-hours following a landslide in Ramban district, officers stated.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Visitors (nationwide freeway), Banihal, Asghar Malik stated the street clearance operation on the landslide-hit Sher Bibi close to Banihal was once nonetheless occurring.
Loads of cars had been left stranded at the freeway after an enormous landslide blocked the arterial highway at Sher Bibi round 2 am Tuesday.
The street clearance operation was once hampered through steady taking pictures of stones from the hillock all over the day.
“Regardless of intermittent taking pictures of stones, the street clearance companies labored arduous since this morning to make certain that the street is opened for one-way site visitors which was once allowed at round 4 pm (Wednesday),” Malik stated.
No recent site visitors was once allowed both from Srinagar or Jammu for the second one day within the morning as government serious about highway clearance operation and to transparent the stranded cars on precedence, a site visitors division respectable stated.
He stated some extra time is had to make the street two-way on the landslide hit stretch.
In the meantime, J-Ok Leader Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta requested for an opportunity of taking a site visitors vacation for an afternoon each and every week at the freeway until March 15 in order that it’s higher utilised for making some the most important maintenance and finishing a couple of crucial works for making trip at the highway a nice enjoy for the commuters.
Reviewing the site visitors state of affairs at the freeway at a gathering with site visitors government right here, Mehta made it amply transparent that during no case must trip time between the 2 capital towns exceed past seven hours on any day for mild motor cars.
The executive secretary enjoined upon the site visitors government to fortify their body of workers on all of the broken parts of the street for higher site visitors control.
He inspired upon them to turn 0 tolerance in opposition to highway aspect parking hindering site visitors drift, directing for having stringent rules in position to take care of all of the violators.
Taking inventory of the continued development works, Mehta referred to as for all out efforts to open the T5 tunnel on Panthiyal stretch of the freeway through March 15, Jaiswal Bridge through March 31 and double-lane of Ramban Flyover and Banihal Bye-pass through April 15.