After Remaining closed for four days the 434-Km long Srinagar Ladakh highway has been restored for one-way traffic on Tuesday.
Official sources told Rising Kashmir that following fresh Snowfall on Dec 10 and 11, the administration closed the 434-Km long Srinagar ladakh highway for vehicles as a precautionary measures, resulting in hundreds of vehicles were Stranded on both sides including Drass, Meenamarg and Sonamarg.
In the meantime, Project Vijayak and Border Roads Organization (BRO) had started to remove snow on both sides of the highway on an emergency basis to make road through for the traffic, said an official, However, a traffic police sources said that only stranded vehicles at Kargil, Drass and Meenmarg were allowed to move towards Srinagar.
Meanwhile Kargil Police in a traffic advisory said All type vehicle shall be allowed on Zojila axis from Manimarg toward Srinagar subject to fair weather and road clearance. Last timing for LMV at PCP Shilikchey shall be 0800 hrs and Minimarg upto 1000 hrs followed by HMVs upto 1200hrs shall be released from Minamarg. After cutoff timing no any vehicle shall be allowed for Srinagar from both the destinations.
The highway was closed on Thrusday last week following moderate to heavy snowfall at Sonamarg, Zojila and Drass, the world’s coldest place after Siberia. Kargil also received light snowfall, officials said.
