Four new flyovers in Karachi to be completed in three months

Pakistan News & Features Services

The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has ordered the municipal officials to work round-the-clock on the four flyovers being built on Shahrah-e-Pakistan to complete the construction by March 2013. 

The top officials of the KMC inspected the sites of developmental works being carried out on Shahrah-e-Pakistan and issued directives on the spot to resolve some of the issues concerning the flow of traffic. 

The flyovers, being built on traffic intersections of Teen Hatti, Daak Khana, Ayesha Manzil and Water Pump, have been causing jams in the peak hours and the commuters have been particularly jolted by the persistent traffic congestion on the intersections of Ayesha Manzil and Water Pump. 

The KMC Administrator, Mohammad Hussain Syed, directed the concerned officials to engage traffic police in devising and implementing an effective traffic movement and diversion plan for resolving the traffic mess on these intersections. 

He ordered them to observe traffic diversion plans devised for building these flyovers to save the people from undue troubles while travelling on the routes along these sites. 

He said that the new traffic diversion plan for the ongoing construction work of the Teen Hatti and Daak Khana flyovers should be properly advertised for the commuters’ guidance, regretting the inconvenience caused for the time being.

He admitted that the traffic congestion problem on Shahrah-e-Pakistan needed to be resolved to save time and fuel of the commuters who often faced vehicular mess on this major road that ran through several heavily-populated areas and small arteries merged into this main thoroughfare. 

The KMC Administrator was informed that the traffic improvement plans had been prepared for organising and facilitating movement of vehicular traffic beneath the flyovers. 

The vehicular traffic going to and coming from Martin Road, Liaquatabad, Lasbela, PIB Colony, Nazimabad, Azizabad, Ancholi, Karimabad and Super Highway will be facilitated after construction of the flyovers.