Day 4: Shooting stones affect traffic movement

The traffic on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was affected for the fourth consecutive day Saturday due to intermittent shooting of stones from a hillock.

No fresh vehicular traffic was allowed on the 270-kmHighway, either from Jammu or Srinagar, over the past three days owing tomultiple landslides and shooting of stones at several places, including Anokhifall, Battery Cheshma and MokeyMorh in Ramban district, officials said. 

   

Though road clearance agency had removed the debris from theroad, the authorities decided against allowing fresh traffic on the Highway onThursday to facilitate over 2,500 stranded vehicles, the officials said.

However, a massive landslide again hit the road onThursday-Friday night at Monkey Morh, once again halting the movement of thetraffic.

The traffic was allowed to move on Friday morning butcontinuous shooting of stones hampered the smooth movement of vehicles, theysaid. 

“The road is open, but the traffic is moving at a slowpace due to intermittent shooting of stones at Monkey Morh. We are hopeful ofclearing the remaining 600 stranded vehicles, mostly trucks, by this evening,”Senior Superintendent of Police, National Highway, Jatinder Singh Johar toldPTI.

He said since there will be convoy movement on Sunday, nocivilian vehicle will be allowed from either Jammu or Srinagar.

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Commuters alleged that the “mismanagement and poorregulation” of traffic was putting them to inconvenience on the state’sprincipal road.

“It has become a norm on the Highway that commuters remainstuck in traffic jams for hours owing to lack of traffic regulation,” said acommuter, AshiqHussain. “It seems as if people have been left on the mercy ofAlmighty by the Traffic Police and Transport department.”

Besides patients, students and government employees who plyregularly on the Highway, are worst suffers, he said.

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