New 4- Lane J&K National Highway a Lifetime experience for travellers

Jammu & Kashmir highway 1A

The state of Jammu and Kashmir is in NEWS, and this time it is for an impressively herculean task. The state has 4-lane national highway 1A, which was built at whopp

ing cost of US $ 2.13 billion. This herculean task was completed by the prestigious the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). The tasks include construction of two major tunnels.The 9 kms. Qazigund-Banihal tunnel replaced the earlier 2.5 kms. tunnel along the highway and another 8.75 km Chenani-Nashri tunnel is playing significant role in shortening the travel distance of the highway by almost 60 kms.

New 4 Lane highway Tunnel

The highway has made remarkable changes in flow of traffic both into the state as well as out of it. The sight of long and complex snarl-ups and increasing delays are no more. The 4-lane highway has proved significantly effective in not only easing the traffic jam to a larger extent, but has also reduced the traveling distance by plenty of miles.

Quite interesting to note is that with 4-laned highway coming to full operational limits, the earlier 288-kms stretch between Jammu and Srinagar has abridged to 238-kms., and the 10-hous journey will be covered only in matter of 5 hours. Furthermore, the dangerous points like Khooni Nala (bloody path), known for life threatening natural events such as sliding of shooting stones, with speeds equitable to that of a rifle bullet,  have taken huge toll on human life on several occasions, has also been separated.

New 4 Lane highway

The 2-lane tunnel provides a separate escape route, therefore avoiding Patnitop, which is indeed a popular tourist spot for snow skiing, and the vertical Nagroda bypass. This landmark construction of 4-lane highway, including the 2-tunnels serves as the incredible nimbus on the already huge and diversified scape of Mother India.