KARACHI, Nov 8: The city government has failed to resume the construction of the new Preedy Street, which has been lying incomplete for the last three years. City Nazim Mustafa Kamal had set up a committee on Sept 8 to identify the hurdles in ongoing uplift projects in the Lines Area and to make recommendations in order to tackle them.

City government sources said the nazim had also directed the body to make recommendations for resettlement and compensation to people whose hoses were coming in the way of the Preedy Street project. The project has been pending for the last three years as about 1,309 houses will be affected by the project.

They said the former city government had constructed the road in 2004 from Saddar Dawakhana to the Lines Area and from the Quaid’s mausoleum to the Lines Area. However, the middle portion could not be constructed as hundreds of houses needed to be demolished. Though the present city government had decided to provide alternative plots to the affectees, the committee failed to decided where affectees would be resettled, the sources said.

They said Preedy Street was supposed to be an alternative route towards central business areas. Due to the incompletion of this road, motorists have been facing traffic jams at Numaish and other intersections while heading towards Saddar, M. A.Jinnah Road and Tower. –Online