Pahalgam, Jun 14: Every weekend, long queues of vehicles snake their way towards Pahalgam, turning a journey to Kashmir's premier tourist destination into an hours-long ordeal. As the summer season gathers momentum, the resort town is once again grappling with traffic congestion, overcrowding and growing ecological stress, prompting calls for regulating the influx of local day visitors. Stakeholders say the pressure is most visible on weekends and holidays when thousands of visitors from across Kashmir descend on the hill resort for day trips, overwhelming roads, parking spaces and public amenities.