KARACHI: Completion of work on roundabouts ordered
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, April 1: The city government’s district coordination officer has asked the officials concerned to expedite work on improvement of Banaras Chowk and Five-Star roundabouts, ensuring an early completion of the projects.
Though work on both the projects had begun in August last under the Khushhal Pakistan Programme, it was delayed on one pretext or the other, as a result of which traffic jams have become a routine at these roundabouts.
One of the major impediments are the presence of old pipelines passing underneath both the roundabouts and the officials of the city government’s water and sanitation department are of the view that after the elimination of both the roundabouts, the traffic load might cause damage to the old pipelines.
However, a meeting held here with the DCO Mir Hussain Ali, decided to immediately shift the pipelines passing underneath the roundabouts so that roundabouts’ improvement work is geared up and accomplished by the end of current month.
Meanwhile, the delay in the initiation of work on carpeting of at-grade roads of the Liaquat Flyover and installation of traffic signals at Liaquatabad-10 and Karimabad traffic intersections underneath the flyover has become a major source of congestion at both the intersections.
Traffic passing through both the intersections often presents a scene of a traffic jungle as in the absence of traffic signals, drivers of buses, mini-buses and coaches, have made it their habit to pick and drop passengers in the middle of the intersections.
