Accessibility: Road plan for people cut off by lake
The cost of the project would be approximately $275 million.
GILGIT:
Chinese engineers employed by Pakistan have started work on designing an alternative road and two tunnels to reconnect people cut off by the Attabad Lake in Hunza and Gojal two years back, officials said on Tuesday.
“The work on its designing has been started and we hope it will be completed in due course,” a senior official of the National Highway Authority told The Express Tribune. The length of the road will be about 30 kilometres, said the official requesting anonymity. He said that two tunnels and several bridges on the Karakoram Highway were also part of the plan.
The cost of the project would be approximately $275 million.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2011.
Chinese engineers employed by Pakistan have started work on designing an alternative road and two tunnels to reconnect people cut off by the Attabad Lake in Hunza and Gojal two years back, officials said on Tuesday.
“The work on its designing has been started and we hope it will be completed in due course,” a senior official of the National Highway Authority told The Express Tribune. The length of the road will be about 30 kilometres, said the official requesting anonymity. He said that two tunnels and several bridges on the Karakoram Highway were also part of the plan.
The cost of the project would be approximately $275 million.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2011.