Srinagar: Traffic has been suspended for weekly Friday maintenance on the 270-km-long Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only all weather road connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country.
A traffic police official said on Friday that no vehicular movement was allowed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway from both sides in view of the maintenance and repair of the road.
After traffic was being disrupted frequently due to landslides and shooting stones, the administration decided to allow National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to undertake necessary maintenance and repair work on the road so that road is through during other days. However, the locals between Banihal and Ramsu alleged that since NHAI started work to convert the road into four-lane, incidents of landslides and shooting has witnessed increase.
