KARACHI, July 7: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has stressed the need to start immediate work on six corridors under Karachi Mass Transit Project.

“At present, Karachi is faced with grave transport problems and only solution to get rid of them is mass transit corridors and signal-free roads,” he told a meeting here on Friday. The meeting was attended by DCO Fazlur Rehman, EDOs and other officials.

He said that the transport issue would stand resolved to a great extent in a couple of years.

Besides, signal-free corridor from Site to airport, work is expected to start in August on 17km Mass Transit Corridor-I from Sohrab Goth to Tower which would have 22 underpasses and bridges.

He said work was also about to start on elevated expressway from Quaidabad to Jinnah Bridge while traffic problems would also be greatly solved with the construction of Lyari Expressway and Northern Bypass.

However, he said that the fast expansion of metropolis required all thoroughfares signal-free and the city government had started working in this regard.

He said that the city government would also construct 100 bridges for pedestrians. During the current fiscal, he said, 50 such bridges would be established at a cost of Rs300 million.

Pointing out that the city district government of Karachi has launched fast development process, Mr Kamal claimed that in a very short period its performance had been the best among all the district governments.

STADIUMS: Work on the construction of six stadiums will start from Saturday when City Nazim Mustafa Kamal will lay the foundation stone of the first stadium in Sector 11-1/2 of Orangi Town.