{"id":308988,"date":"2019-02-05T06:05:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T06:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308988"},"modified":"2019-02-05T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:18:44","slug":"one-way-traffic-allowed-on-jammu-srinagar-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/one-way-traffic-allowed-on-jammu-srinagar-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"One-way traffic allowed on Jammu-Srinagar highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308652 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/highway-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/highway-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/highway-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/highway.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Srinagar-Jammu highway was thrown open for one-way traffic from Sunday. This is to clear the\u00a0 stranded vehicles on the road on both sides.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The state&#8217;s traffic department has been allowing only one-way movement on the strategically important road, as a result of the damage caused to it due to the exceptionally harsh winter this year. The recurrent snowfall has often closed the road and also caused landslides. It has taken the department days to clear the road or repair the damaged parts.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The road has come under landslides at many stretches from Banihal to Ramban and at places like Battery Chashma, Gagroo and Anokhi Falls. This has caused frequent blockades.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jammu- Srinagar highway is the Kashmir Valley&#8217;s only viable surface connection with\u00a0 the rest of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This winter has witnessed frequent snowfall and rains in Kashmir, leading to recurrent closure of the all-important highway.\u00a0 This\u00a0 created scarcity of essentials in the Valley, also raising the\u00a0 cost of goods.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Even though weather has improved from Sunday, the state&#8217;s Meteorological department has\u00a0 forecast a fresh spell of rain and snowfall in the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Srinagar-Jammu highway was thrown open for one-way traffic from Sunday. This is to clear the\u00a0 stranded vehicles on the road on both sides.\u00a0 The state&#8217;s traffic department has been allowing only one-way movement on the strategically important road, as a result of the damage caused to it due to the exceptionally harsh winter this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,10790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308989,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308988\/revisions\/308989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}