Kumbh: Cars, bikes to be parked near Sangam

Allahabad | Tuesday | 14th August, 2018

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""Heavy vehicles like buses would be allotted parking far from the Sangam ghats." Singh said that all 82 parking slots to be set up at the Kumbh Mela venue would be located within a five-kilometre radius of the Sangam ghats. The traffic police department has also drafted an emergency traffic plan in case of unexpected crowd flow. The 30% vehicles from MirzapurReewa and Banda routes and the 33% from Kanpur, Lucknow and Pratapgarh routes would be parked at Arail ghat and Phaphamau zones respectively.DIGSSP(Kumbh Mela) KP Singh said,"Light vehicles would be allotted a parking slot within a 1or 1.5 kilometre from the Sangam ghats. There would be at least seven parking lots for light vehicles at Poore Surdas, Ustapur- Mahmoodabad, Hightech City West parking, Bukshi Bundh Kachar, and Bela Kachar Phaphamau and they would be able to allot over 30,000 vehicles..