NHA spokesperson says the project was originally scheduled to be completed by March next year
Talking to the media, NHA spokesman Kashif Zaman said on Tuesday that the project was scheduled to be completed by March next year, but it would be completed ahead of schedule. He added that the total length of the link road is 26.75 kilometres while its construction would cost Rs10.84b and the land would cost Rs5.984b.
New Islamabad airport to be operational by August 2017
He explained that the link road from the motorway interchange to the airport is 5.5kms, while the cargo link road and periphery road are around 12kms. The project is stated to be the shortest and most cost-effective approach linked to the parking area at the new airport.
The link road project was approved by the Prime Minister in January 2015. The new airport is scheduled to be operational by July 2017 and would replace Benazir Bhutto International Airport.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2016.
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