Faisal Avenue underpass opens for traffic

Overhead bridge links sectors G-7, G-8

ISLAMABAD:

The underpass on Faisal Avenue was opened for traffic on Wednesday.

The residents of sectors G-7 and G-8 will now have easy access, instead of getting caught in traffic snarls on the U-turn that earlier connected the localities divided by the Faisal Avenue.

The underpass was imperative as Faisal Avenue is one of the busiest roads in the capital and motorists face gridlocks at the Zero Point U-turn and the U-turn near the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), which sometimes also caused accidents. The diversion of traffic on the G-7 service road also caused gridlocks in front of Zarai Tarqiati Bank (ZTBL).

Interior Minister retired Brigadier Ijaz Shah had inaugurated the construction of the underpass on Faisal Avenue to link the G-7 and G-8 sectors in 2019.

The project, worth Rs268.905 million, was set to be completed in a year. The construction of two underpasses on Faisal Avenue connecting G-7 and G-8 and F-7 and F-8 was approved in 2014.

According to the capital’s master plan, the CDA was also supposed to construct underpasses to connect all the residential sectors. However, so far, the authority has constructed underpasses and bridges on 7th Avenue that connect G-6 and G-7 and F-6 and F-7.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st, 2020.