The head of Tehran traffic police explained the restrictions and bans on traffic and stopping in some roads of this city at the same time as the burial of the body of 110 unknown martyrs.
According to Tasnim, Sardar Seyyed Abolfazl Mousavipour, the head of the Greater Tehran Traffic Police, announced: From 8:00 a.m. on Friday, 08/22/1405, with the adoption of special traffic measures in order to regulate traffic and hold the funeral ceremony of the 110th unknown martyr as magnificently as possible, with the enthusiastic participation of citizens, a traffic plan will be started and the implementation of this plan will be on Islamic Revolution Street “in front of Tehran University.”
Mousavipour went on to say: For this purpose, the project will be implemented in two stages, the first stage will be from 24:00 on Thursday, 08/22/1405, in Islamic Revolution Street, and the second stage will be from 05:30 in the morning until the traffic situation normalizes.
Traffic restrictions in 3 stages
The head of the Greater Tehran Traffic Police also listed the traffic restrictions in 3 stages starting at 06:00 on Friday 08/22/1405 and said: The first stage is from the north side from Taleghani and Porsina streets to the south, from the west side of Azadi Street to the Zare intersection, to the east side from the Islamic Revolution-Wali Asr intersection and from the south side to Labafinejad and Nazari streets to the north.
It should be noted: Kargar Street from Kamali Intersection to Elkhebal Square and Imam Khomeini Street (RA) from Kamali Intersection to Har Square are restricted during the movement of trucks carrying the bodies of martyrs.
The second phase will be implemented from the north side of Karimkhan Street and Keshavarz Blvd., the west side from Azadi-Towhid intersection, the east side from Ferdowsi Square, the south side from Jumhouri Street, and the third phase will be implemented from the north side of Karimkhan Street and Keshavarz Boulevard, the west side from Azadi-Towhid intersection, the east side from Shariati Street and the wooden bridge, and the south side from Jhumori Street.
Stopping restrictions on Henglab Street
Mousavipour said: Stopping restrictions will also be in effect on El-Englab Street and all roads perpendicular to El-Englab Street, between El-Englab Square and Hafez Intersection, with a minimum of 50 meters to El-Englab Street, from 24:00 on the day of the project implementation, Hafez Street and Vahdat-e-Islami, from El-Englab intersection to Abu Saeed and Behesht Street intersections.
Bus and taxi stop and arrangement
The Chief of Traffic Police of Greater Tehran added: In order to facilitate the attendance of the citizens who intend to participate in this ceremony, the location and arrangement of the buses of the bus company in Azadi Street after the Islamic Revolution Square in the direction from east to west of University Street, North and South Kargar Street, Aburihan Street, Qorani Street to the north, the length of Valiasr Street to the north after the Revolution Street, Jamalzadeh Street from Azadi Street to Fatemi Street, Taleqani Street from east to west from Shariati Street to Valiasr Street and to finish the ceremony He announced in Maraj Shahada located on Behesht Street, Khayyam Street, 15 Khordad Street, Vahdat Islami Street to the south and Fayaz Bakhsh Street.
He added: The planned locations for the taxi arrangement in the first stage are the intersection of Azadi-Zare to Elginal Square, the intersection of Kargar-Keshavarz Boulevard to Elginal Square, from Ferdowsi Square to the intersection of Valiasr (Aj), from the intersection of Southern Kargar-Jumohri to Elginal Square, from Valiasr Square (Aj) to the intersection of Islamic Revolution Street – Valiasr (Aj).
The place where the personal vehicles of the undertakers stop
The head of the Greater Tehran Traffic Police further pointed out: the planned places for stopping the vehicles of “private” undertakers are also in all the roads leading to the place of the ceremony “before the first stage of the restrictions”, as well as the length of the path of the funeral of the dead body except for the places planned for stopping the buses of the same company.
Prohibition of motorcycle traffic
At the end, Mousavipour announced the ban on the movement of motorcycles along the route of the burial of the martyrs and recommended that citizens should use public transportation, especially “metro, bus and taxi” to participate in this ceremony, in order to facilitate the movement and avoid creating traffic on the roads around the place of the ceremony.
