SRINAGAR: Shoppers will have a field day ahead of Eid as the authorizes have restricted traffic movement in Srinagar’s trade hub, Lal Chowk and Residency road.
To ensure smooth movement of traffic and to discourage gridlocks along Residency Road and M.A Road, Traffic Police, Srinagar, has issued an exhaustive traffic plan, in the run up to the Muslim festive Eid-ul-Fitr.
An official spokesman said o passenger vehicle would be allowed to ply on Residency Road from Radio Kashmir upto Hari Singh High Street on one side and along Moulana Azad Road from SRTC Crossing to Jehangir Chowk on the other side except Emergency and duty vehicles from July 24, 2014 till Eid-ul-Fitr prayer.
Besides, no 407 vehicle shall be allowed on Residency Road and Moulana Azad Road from July 25, 2014. However the passenger vehicles moving on Residency Road shall be diverted via Radio Kashmir crossing towards Abdullah bridge, Rajbagh, Lal Mandi, Shargari, Exhibition.
The vehicles which have to move from Batmaloo towards MA Road shall be diverted at Jehangir Chowk, Old Secretariat, Tankipora, Habba Kadal, Barbar Shah, Baba Dharam Das route and at Maisuma interior. At Baba Dharam Das, the vehicles bound for Hazratbal and Soura shall take left turn and vehicles bound for Nishat, Shalimar shall proceed towards Kohankhan Dalgate-Badyari Chowk and onwards.
The general public is requested to pool in their vehicles so that the traffic pressure on the city roads is reduced.
The shopkeepers will not be allowed to park their vehicles in front of their shops. However, they can use the parking space in the nearby parking slots.
From July 24, 2014, all shopkeepers and business establishments of Lal Chowk area shall park their vehicles before 0900 hours at authorized and designated parking places.
For Residency road market, Polo-view parking, Press colony SDA parking near Sangermal parking shall be utilized. While for Lal Chowk, Municipal parking near Lala Rukh Hotel and Sheikh Bagh parking, besides for H.S.H.S and Jahangir Chowk, Exhibition parking, parking near Estate Quarters HSHS and Iqbal park parking be used.
However, the customers to Residency Road, Regal Chowk and Lal Chowk shall park their vehicles in the designated parking space at Polo view parking in Sports Council ground, Sheikh Bagh parking near Forest Lane. They shall also park their vehicles in temporary parking at SRTC Yard.
The customers can park their vehicles at Banquet Hall parking on M.A road, along the boundary wall of Pratap park (M.A road), between two yellow lines on Residency Road and Regal Chowk. However, parking within single yellow lines will not be allowed.
Customers will be allowed to park their vehicles for only 20 minutes within two yellow lines.
There shall be no parking zone from Regal Chowk ( Kohli) upto Gantaghar and Gurdwara upto Amira Kadal, Amira Kadal towards HSHS (right side of the road) and from Budshah bridge upto Dalgate (both tubes of M.A road).
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