KATHMANDU, March 14: Traffic in the Kathmandu Valley has become chaotic due to the demonstration of cooperative victims. Traffic has been disrupted in various areas within the Ring Road.

KATHMANDU, March 5: Tourist traffic has started increasing in Lukla. After two months, the traffic of tourists has started to increase in Lukla as the weather is favorable.

KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Hit-and-run cases are a frequent headache for the traffic police in Nepal. This is also because of the negligible use of technology to monitor traffic on the roads and highways throughout the country, including in the Kathmandu Valley.

KATHMANDU, Nov 23: Preparations have been made to divert the traffic in the capital city, if needed, in view of the demonstrations to be held in Balkhu and Tinkune.

MAKWANPUR, Oct 4: Due to the landslides that occurred with the rain last night, two road sections connecting Hetauda to Kathmandu have been blocked since this morning.

MAKWANPUR, Aug 13: Vehicular movement along the Tribhuvan Highway, which was blocked by a landslide since this morning, has resumed, allowing two-way traffic.

KATHMANDU, July 25: The graph of crimes has been on the rise in Kathmandu year on year, available data shows.

KATHMANDU,  July 6: To make the traffic management of the Kathmandu Valley more systematic and effective, temporary traffic posts have been added at five locations in the Valley including Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur.

KATHMANDU, July 1: Landslides triggered by incessant rainfall since Saturday morning have disrupted vehicular movement on several road sections across the country, causing inconvenience to the commuters traveling to various places.

BIRATNAGAR, April 4: Traders of Biratnagar have disobeyed the parking prohibition zone implemented by the Biratnagar Metropolitan Corporation.

JUMLA, Oct 25: The Karnali Highway has fully come into operation after 20 days of disruption due to floods and landslides triggered by incessant rains at several places along the highway from October 5 to 10.

Traffic resumes on Bhimdatta Highway

October 10, 2022 13:25 pm

ATTARIYA, Oct 10: Traffic on the Bhimdatta Highway that remained obstructed due to incessant rain since October 6 has resumed. The highway was blocked due to a landslide at Godavari Municipality-4, Kailali district.

Narayanghat-Mugling Road reopens

June 10, 2022 14:30 pm

DHADING, June 10: Vehicular traffic has resumed on the Narayanghat-Mugling road that was closed earlier today following a landslide.

KATHMANDU, Dec 17: The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) has launched a three-month program called the 'Traffic Ujyaalo Abhiyan' in the capital.

City of dreams or stuff of nightmares?

September 27, 2019 08:57 am

Living in Kathmandu has its perks as well as its downsides. Be it the pretty cafes or the marvelous historical sites, Kathmandu is a city that’s very much alive and bustling. It’s a city that demands to be explored. However, the traffic, pollution, and potholed roads often take away from its beauty. We asked the residents of Kathmandu what they thought was the best and worst things about living in Kathmandu. Here are their answers.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9: Metropolitan Traffic Police Division is all set to manage street lights in Kathmandu valley.

KATHMANDU, July 25: The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) has collected revenue of Rs 310.56 million in a fine from the Kathmandu Valley in the last fiscal year 2018/19 for the violation of traffic rules.

Your daily dose of the missed important news of the day.

KATHMANDU, July 22: With the onset of monsoon season, vehicular movement along waterlogged roads in Kathmandu runs into difficulties. As a result, road travel turns into a terrifying ordeal since it involves a considerable amount of time at that time.

KATHMANDU, June 25: Police have booked 940 road vehicles in the past two weeks for speeding on the Koteshwar-Kalanki section of the ring road in the capital.

Let’s ride

June 6, 2019 19:14 pm

According to the data published by Department of Transport Management (DoTM), more than four hundred thousand vehicles were registered in the last fiscal year, leaving the total number of vehicles to 3.22 million by 2017/18; 2.5 million of which are motorcycles alone.

Rules of the road

June 3, 2019 00:30 am

Let’s get the basics right. Follow the traffic rules and improve our road behaviors. Road safety is everyone’s responsibility

KATHMANDU, April 29: In an effort to lessen traffic congestion, 'pick and drop' system has been put in place in Koteswor – one of the central part of Kathmandu Valley.

KATHMANDU, April 21; The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD), Baggikhana realized the urgent need for changing the traffic flow in the capital when it went about forming its working procedures.

KATHMANDU, March 6: It's not uncommon that roads are blocked and traffic movement is diverted to ease VIP motorcades in the Kathmandu Valley. But, this time it probably was different as Kathmandu folks took a strong exception to traffic jams caused by the VIPs motorcades.

KATHMANDU, March 5: The number of road accidents in the capital has gone unabated thanks to the lack of proper use of zebra crossings, traffic lights and sky bridges.

AMARGADHI, Feb 4: Traffic police have taken action against more than 1,700 drivers in the last six months of the fiscal year 2075/76.

Vehicles registered under Article 8 (1) of Public Transportation Act 2049 are not allowed to use their vehicle for public transportation. DoTM has ordered the MTPO, Baggikhana, to take action against the vehicles offering such services.

KATHMANDU, Dec 20: Gone are the days when the traffic police persons had to blow the whistle at the top of their lungs to stop the vehicles and pedestrians alike in the zebra crossings on various roads in Kathmandu.

Over The Roads

December 6, 2018 09:45 am

Driving over the narrow streets of Kathmandu is not a piece of cake and encountering bunch of problems on the way isn’t an uncommon thing either. A town-centre bottleneck having a nine-mile traffic jam requires a significant amount of patience to keep the composure stable. Beyond that, 2 out of 10 lose their placidness and try overhauling the vehicles which ultimately makes traffic police crack up their sincere mentoring. Loud horns and blares of traffic make the road more distressing.

KATHMANDU, Nov 15: The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division has effectively launched monitoring of vehicles plying on the road through CC camera in Kathmandu valley.

DHADING, Oct 10: In light of Dashain festival, the District Police Office, Dhading has prohibited heavy vehicles to ply along the Nagdhunga-Naubise road for a week, according to SP Dambar BK.

DHADING, Oct 4: Normally, it would only take around one-and-a-half to two hours to reach Kalanki of Kathmandu from Simle of Dhading. Of late, however, the travel time has significantly increased. It now takes at least eight to 12 hours to travel the same distance.

LAMJUNG, Oct 1: After 19 days of obstruction following numerous landslides along the Marsyangdi River, vehicular movement has finally resumed in Lamjung-Manang road section, which is the only route to reach the mountainous district of Manang.

Traffic resumes on Beni-Jomsom road

September 24, 2018 11:49 am

MYAGDI, Sept 24: The Beni-Jomsom linking northern part of Myagdi and trans-Himalayan district, Mustang, has resumed after necessary repairs.

MYAGDI, Sept 20: Traffic operation has resumed along the Beni-Jomsom road section at Raghuganga rural municipality-3, Rahughat in Myagdi after a week of its disruption.

CHITWAN, Sept 12: One-way traffic has resumed along the Narayangadh-Muglin road section, which was disrupted due to landslides triggered by incessant rains.

KATHMANDU, Aug 31: Major roads in the Kathmandu valley will be disrupted as the heads of states and governments are returning today after the successful completion of the fourth summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).

KATHMANDU, Aug 30: President Bidya Devi Bhandari is hosting luncheon party for the visiting head of states and executive heads of the member states of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) on Thursday afternoon.

KATHMANDU, Aug 28: Major roads in the valley are disrupted as the heads of states and governments are starting arriving today for the fourth summit of the BIMSTEC.

KATHMANDU, Aug 26: Most of the road accidents have occurred due to drivers' carelessness in the Kathmandu Valley.

THE WEEK IN PICTURES

August 25, 2018 18:40 pm

Cover Photo: Road maintainance  for BIMSTEC causing traffic jam at Jamal on Tueday. Photo: Pratik Rayamajhi

CHITWAN, Aug 5: Traffic along the Narayangadh-Mugling road has resumed. It had come to a halt since 10:25 pm last night due to a landslide.

CHITWAN, Aug 4: Traffic for two ways has resumed along the Narayangadh-Muglin road after around 11 hours following clearance of landslides that obstructed the road at Jalbire of Ichhakamana Rural Municipality-6 and Ghaumaune in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-29.

NUWAKOT, Aug 3: Transportation has come to a grinding halt for four days along the Pasang Lhamu Highway following a landslide at Tirtire Bhir in Bidur Municipality-10 along the Trishuli-Betrawati section.

KATHMANDU, July 16: The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) on Sunday started a campaign to make jaywalkers aware about traffic rules. The campaign was started after the MTPD realized an increase in accidents at an alarming rate caused by jaywalkers.

KATHMANDU, July 15: The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MDTP) has started offering two-hour classes on road safety on the road itself to those crossing roads by not complying with the traffic rules.

Managing urban traffic

July 15, 2018 02:00 am

If much-hyped slogan of “prosperous Nepal” is to be realized, Nepal needs to start gathering real-time data and implement the smart city initiatives

KATHMANDU, July 14: On July 7, Sunil Pokharel, a daily commuter along the Maitighar-Tinkune road section, was stuck in a traffic jam on his bike near St Xavier's College when he decided to overtake a few vehicles in front of him by venturing into the wrong lane.

CHITWAN, July 10: Vehicular movement has resumed along the Narayangadh-Muglin road section since 11 am after clearing the landslide debris deposited in various pointed of the highway.