barricades removed
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The barricade installed at Tikri border to prevent farmers from marching to Delhi has been removed. Late Saturday night, barricades were removed from a lane going from Delhi to Haryana. At the same time, on Sunday, barricades were removed from one lane on both sides. After this the movement of vehicles has started. At the same time, the work of opening service lanes on both sides is going on at Singhu border.
Police officials said that the work of removing the barricades on the Tikri border started from 4 pm on Saturday evening. The police first removed the blockage created by containers, trucks and old vehicles kept in one lane. After this, the police started the work of removing the jersey barrier with the help of a crane. Also the barbed wire was removed. After this, the work of removing the concrete wall in the Jersey Barrier was started.
The police officer said that all the barricades placed on the road on one lane were removed late on Saturday night. Due to which the movement of vehicles going from Delhi to Haryana started. After that the work of removing the barricade from the route coming from Haryana to Delhi was started. All the barricades were removed from this route also on Sunday morning. After that, vehicular movement started on both the routes.
At the same time, the work of removing barricades from the service lanes on both sides of the Singhu border was started from Saturday evening itself. Containers, trucks, old vehicles, barbed wire and other barricades installed on the service lane going from Haryana to Delhi and from Delhi to Haryana were removed. At present both were installed on the service lane. Jersey barriers were built on the road. The work of removing the concrete wall is left, the work of removing which is going on continuously. It takes a lot of effort to remove the concrete wall. Due to the barricade not being completely removed, both the routes are currently closed for vehicular movement. The police officer says that vehicular movement will start only after the concrete wall is removed from both the service lanes.