KARACHI, Feb 27: The city government’s works and service department has been asked by the DCO Karachi to immediately remove all hindrances for undertaking the remaining work of the Liaquat Flyover so as to ensure smooth flow of traffic at Karimabad and Liaquatabad No 10 intersections underneath the flyover.

The plan for constructing the Liaquat Flyover was approved by the ECNEC in 1992 but the officials of the defunct KMC took nine long years to complete the project as it was opened for vehicular traffic in April 2001.

Though the company which was awarded the contract of constructing the flyover had completed the flyover in April 2001, over six per cent works, pertaining to carpeting of the flyover’s at-grade roads and installation of traffic signals for regulating the traffic passing underneath the flyover at Liaquatabad No 10 and Karimabad traffic intersections, has not been carried out.

Taking a serious notice of such an inordinate delay in carrying out the remaining works of the flyover, the DCO Karachi Mir Hussain Ali, at a meeting held on Thursday, directed the officials of the city government’s works and services department’s EDO, Brig (Retd) Zaheer Quadri, to immediately arrange a meeting between the city Nazim and chairman M/s National Construction so that the remaining work of the flyover was completed as early as possible to avoid bottlenecks in the flow of traffic at both the intersections passing underneath the flyover at Karimabad and Liaquatabad No 10.