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Srinagar, Jan 18: Srinagar Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu on Monday said that the city has a motorable lane network of over 1,800 kilometres and it cannot be cleared manually.
“Those who wonder why SMC needs snow clearance machines! For 1800 kilometers of motorable LANES in our snow-clearance jurisdiction. Would be really interested to know how 1800 kms of lanes can be cleared of snow manually,” Mattu wrote on twitter.
As per the Twitter page of Office of Mayor of Srinagar, the SMC GIS team had measured the total lane network in Srinagar as 2,111.88 km of which 1773.34895 km accounting for ninety percent were motorable while the remaining lane length of 338.54995 km was non-motorable.
The SMC Mayor reiterated his demand of snow clearing machines for the Srinagar Municipal Corporation.
Impossible to clear 1800-km motorable lanes manually: Srinagar Mayor
