Metro bus project: Murree road carpeting under way
Labourers busy installing escalators during construction of the Metro Bus Project at Murree Road. PHOTO: APP
Traffic authorities have asked the public to use alternative routes and avoid Benazir Bhutto Road as the Metro Bus project nears completion.
Carpeting work on damaged portions of the road is under way. Rawalpindi Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Shoaib Khurram Janbaz has urged the public to use Airport Road and Peshawar Road to reach Islamabad as the pace of work on the metro project, particularly at Double Road, Shamsabad and Sixth Road area has been accelerated.
He advised motorists to use Airport Road through Koral Chowk, and Peshawar Road through IJP Road and Golra Mor to reach Islamabad. The public, he said, should take Rawal Road, Saidpur Road and IJP Road to reach city areas.
Almost 95 per cent work on the project in Islamabad and 60 per cent in Rawalpindi has been completed.
An important review meeting on the project is scheduled on January 31.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 28th, 2015.