Full resumption of BP Highway

Kavrepalanchowk: Transport service has been fully restored on BP Highway from Wednesday.

The Road Division Office, Bhaktapur has permitted the same. Earlier, the Office had banned the operation of vehicles for 10 hours in the night since October 16, citing the possibility of dry landslide and ongoing maintenance drive in the stretch of around eight kilometres along the highway.

Vehicular movement was halted from 6:00 pm to 4:00 am at the Dhulikhel-Bhakundebesi-Barkhekhola section along the BP Highway after the recent landslide and flooding damaged the highway.

Passenger buses, which have taken permits for their service along the route as well as light vehicles, were brought into operation by constructing an alternative track.

The landslide and flood had washed away more than an eight-kilometre road at different places at the Bhakundebesi-Chaukidanda-Barkhekhola section towards Kavre. Thousands of vehicles use this route every day as it is a short distance to connect eastern Nepal to the federal capital, Kathmandu.

RSS