‘Mughal Road congested due to closure of Jmu-Sgr highway’

Terming frequent closure of Jammu-Srinagar national highway as the reason for congestion of traffic on Mughal Road, District Development Commissioner, Poonch, Rahul Yadav, said that the authorities are trying their best to ease the congestion.

The DDC was interacting with media persons after chairingmultiple meetings with officers of sub-divisional administration in Surankote,aimed to devise a proper plan for vehicular movement on Mughal Road.

   

He said, “Frequent closure of Jammu-Srinagar nationalhighway has resulted in three to four times increase in traffic on Mughal Road,which is the main cause of congestion.”

He further said, “Besides, Mughal Road is yet to be madetwo-way and it gets too congested at some places. Plus, if vehicular movementincreases multiple times under such conditions, then it becomes difficult torun smooth traffic.”

Replying to a question regarding checkpoint at Poshana wherepeople have to wait for hours for their turn, Yadav said that the problem istaking place due to heavy traffic and the administration is hopeful of ease inthe days to come after Jammu-Srinagar national highway becomes normal.

“We cannot change the location of the checkpoint atPoshana as it is a strategic location, which has been set up keeping in viewall the link roads starting from Mughal Road,” Yadav said, adding that districtadministration is regularly in contact with army authorities.

“The problem is not due to checking, which has been going onsince years, but it is due to high volume of traffic which has suddenlyincreased due to closure of Jammu-Srinagar highway,” he said.

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