Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Oct 29: The locals of Jakhani area today blocked road and held strong demonstration and protest against the massive traffic jams in and around Udhampur City and Jakhani National Highway area.
Alleging total traffic mis-management, the protesting people were shouting slogans against the IG Traffic, SSP Traffic National Highway and local administration. They alleged that traffic mis-management has now become routine on all the roads and National Highway in and round Udhampur. No body takes much pain while the public has been left to suffer. The Traffic officials deployed in the area have totally failed to regulate the traffic as they remain busy in `other work of their interest’.
They said thousands of trucks/ load carriers are allowed to park in Jakhni area and it has become a cause of headache for the locals. Log traffic jams on Bypass and Dhar Road besides main National Highway has paralysed the traffic system in the city. The school buses/ vans remain trapped in the jams and children are unable to reach schools in time.
It takes each vehicle more than three hours just to cross one kilometer stretch passing through the city. Heavy jams at Jakhani Chowk, Sangur Dhar Road, Battal Balian, Railway road and Bypass National Highway included Army, civil and other heavy vehicles, double and triple crossing by small cars resulted in heavy jamming all around. The locals demanded action in this regard.
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