Kumbh: Cars, bikes to be parked near Sangam

ALLAHABAD: Keeping in mind the huge rush of devotees in the Kumbh Mela next year, the traffic department would give preference to light vehicles like cars and motorcycles while allotting parking slots over heavy vehicles like trucks and buses.
The traffic police expects around 37 % vehicles to come from Jaunpur and Varanasi routes and has allotted them parking at Jhunsi zone. The 30% vehicles from Mirzapur\Reewa and Banda routes and the 33% from Kanpur, Lucknow and Pratapgarh routes would be parked at Arail ghat and Phaphamau zones respectively.

DIG\SSP(Kumbh Mela) KP Singh said,"Light vehicles would be allotted a parking slot within a 1or 1.5 kilometre from the Sangam ghats."

"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. 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. The traffic police department has also drafted an emergency traffic plan in case of unexpected crowd flow.