Islamabad Expressway expansion planned

The work on final phase of Islamabad Expressway Signal Free Corridor has remained in limbo for last couple of years

ISLAMABAD:

The construction work on next phase of Islamabad Expressway Signal Free Corridor — Gulberg-Rawat — will start in coming days to regulate traffic flow on one of the most busy thoroughfares of the city, said the top official of the Capital Development Authority (CDA).

"All the relevant departments are mobilized, machinery is moving and the work will start with full force as alternate traffic plan is being prepared by member engineering, director traffic planning and traffic police," CDA Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed said.

The work on final phase of the Islamabad Expressway Signal Free Corridor has remained in limbo for last couple of years, mainly due to financial constraints, faced by the civic agency, whereas it is the public who have been bearing the brunt of long-hour traffic clogs daily while traveling on such road.

The project director said initially, the CDA would add two more lanes on both sides of one kilometre patch on Korang Bridge and construct Underpass at the Public Works Department (PWD) intersection under the PC-I, approved by the Central Department Working Party with an estimated cost amounting Rs1.6 billion.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 3^rd, 2020.