Further development: LDA gets Rs2b to remodel city

Projects include construction of flyover, pedestrian bridges, roads and grounds

LAHORE: The governing body of the Lahore Development Authority has accorded an administrative approval to execute six new development projects in the city at a cost of more than Rs2 billion.

These projects included rehabilitation of 2.75-kilometere-long Shabbir Usmani Road from Jinnah Hospital Chowk Maulana Shoukat Ali Road to Y-Junction Barkat Market in New Garden Town at a cost of Rs134.5 million.

There will also be the construction of a flyover at Shaukat Khanum intersection to facilitate 200,000 vehicles on a daily basis. Other initiatives include the remodelling and improvement of U-turns on Khayaban-e-Jinnah and construction of four pedestrian bridges on main boulevard Johar Town at a cost of Rs947.3 million.

Road signs along Canal Bank Road, from Doctor’s Hospital to Mughalpura underpass, will be installed for a sum of Rs200 million.

Projects include the remodelling of Doongi Ground and MM Alam Road through better landscape, constructing entrance arcade and providing central entertainment areas at a cost of Rs110 million.

A sum of Rs100.5 million will be spent on the rehabilitation and improvement of Noor Jehan Road from Hussain Chowk to Liberty Gulberg Roundabout.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2017.