Public transport: 40% work complete on Metro Bus Project

MULTAN:

The Metro Bus Project in Multan will be completed well ahead of the May 2016, deadline, Chief Engineer Sabir Khan Sadozai told journalists at a briefing at Madni Chowk Camp near New Multan on Wednesday.

He said forty per cent work on the project was completed in three months. “We have completed 85 per cent of the pile work, 61 per cent piers cap, 25 per cent transoms, and 53 per cent work on girders.”

Sadozai said he hoped that they would be able to complete most of the remaining work ahead of Eidul Azha.

He said of the Rs4 billion released so far, they had utilised Rs2,400 million. Escalators and elevators used in the Metro Bus Project Stations were made in Europe, he said. The stations were being built in view of weather conditions in Multan, he said.

Isolated panels will be used to make the roofs of the stations leak proof, Sadozai said. The decision had been taking following the unpleasant experience of metro bus stations in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

“We will make sure that there are no leaks at metro bus stations in Multan,” he said. To a question, the chief engineer said the construction management had played a key role in the fast-paced work on the project. “However, there will be no compromise on quality.”

Published in The Express Tribune, September 3^rd, 2015.