Road network: Work on new flyover to begin this week

Flyover on Ferozepur Road to cross Canal Road and Muslim Town junctions.


Shahram Haq September 19, 2011

LAHORE:


Work on another flyover on Ferozepur Road, crossing the Canal and Muslim Town intersections, will begin in the next few days, officials said.


Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is to inaugurate the project in a ceremony probably on Wednesday, while the National Engineering Services of Pakistan is putting the final touches to the design, officials involved with the project told The Express Tribune. The Communication and Works Department is executing the project while the National Logistic Cell is the contractor.

The officials said that the flyover is aimed at easing the traffic bottleneck on Ferozepur Road at the Muslim Town and Canal intersections.

There is a particularly slow section between the two intersections, as traffic from Muslim Town headed towards Canal Road jostles with through traffic on Ferozepur Road.

Project director Sabir Khan said that the flyover would consist of two bridges, similar to the Kalma Chowk flyover, and would be about 2.5 times the length of the Kalma Chowk flyover, crossing both the Canal and Muslim Town intersections.

The bridge on the western side of the road, for traffic heading towards Mozang from Kalma Chowk, will start at the Police Motor Transport Office, just after the Gaddafi Stadium traffic lights. The bridge will end just after the Rehmanpura crossing, in front of a Caltex petrol pump. The bridge will be 1.1 km long, and include a ramp for traffic headed to Wahdat Road.

The other bridge will start after Rehmanpura in front of WAPDA hospital and end at the Police Motor Transport Office. It will be 750 metres long. Both bridges will have three lanes each 10 metres wide, while the ramp will be a two-lane structure. A seven-metre wide corridor between the bridges will be left for future public transport projects.

Building the flyover, including land acquisition, will cost about Rs3.5 billion, said Khan. “It will be more complex than Kalma Chowk,” he said. “It will be about 2.5 times longer – the Kalma flyover has 24 bridge piles whereas this one will have 58.”

He said if engineers worked at the same pace as at Kalma Chowk, the flyover would take about 11 months to complete, “but we will try to finish it before that”, he added. He said the government would need to buy about seven kanals for the bridge for traffic heading towards Mozang from Gaddafi Stadium. He said city government and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) officials were working on the land acquisition and would submit their cost estimates soon.

He said that they were currently testing stone for use in the construction.

District Coordination Officer Ahad Khan Cheema said that the city district government and the LDA were short of funds and would seek bridge financing from the Punjab government. The city government and the LDA would pay back the Punjab government later.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 20th,  2011.

COMMENTS (2)

billo barber | 12 years ago | Reply

yes appriciated just in 3.5 a major issue will be resolved otherwise it might shift to swiss banks by minister of utitlity stores.

Truth_Prevails | 12 years ago | Reply

Great Job CM.

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