Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Mar 13: Long traffic jam was witnessed in Udhampur area and the National Highway passing through the town as well as Dhar Road and Bypass, leaving commuters stranded on the road for hours together, here today.
Because of total failure on the part of Traffic Police, the public had to face a lot of problems and many students, appearing in exams, could not reach their respective centres in time while employees were also late for 2-3 hours in arriving their respective offices.
The school buses and other vans remained stuck in massive traffic jam while the Executive Police, which came out on the road to assist Traffic Police to overcome chaos and mess on the highway and internal roads in the town, also appeared helpless. The Traffic Policemen were found missing at most of the bottle necks and crossings.
Sources said that as the upward traffic towards Kashmir was restricted by the Traffic cops at TCP Jakheni since early morning, a long traffic jam started appearing on the highway. Within an hour, the tail of the traffic jam touched Ghari and Rehambal. On Bypass road also long traffic jam was created by the trucks/ load carriers and also light and medium passenger vehicles. Same was the situation on the Dhar Road up to Mian Bagh and Jaghanu Morh up to Roun Domail. Some light vehicles sensing trouble on the highway adopted internal City routes and they choked all the internal roads as well.
According to the Deputy Commissioner Udhampur, Dr Piyush Singla, an alternate road project is being prepared to tackle the traffic jam, which has now become a routine affair when the National Highway is closed.
Even as the Traffic jams have become the order of the day in Ramban, Chenani and Udhampur belt, the worst ever mess was witnessed on the road here today. It took around three hours for the vehicles to travel just 5-6 kms from Rehambal to Dhar Road junction near Jakheni. Thousands of the vehicles remained stranded or moved at snail’s pace for hours.
Heavy jam was witnessed at Omara Morh, Shiv Nagar, Military Hospital Chowk, Dhar road, Housing Colony Chowk as well as Jakhani Chowk, besides Bypass National Highway and Battal Balian link. Army Convoy was also stranded. The double lanning created by the cars and other light vehicles compounded the problem. The slow pace of vehicles continued till afternoon.
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