‘Unfinished portions of metro project to be completed by November’
RAWALPINDI: The three as yet incomplete sections of the Metro Bus Project will take another two months to complete, even though the bus service has been running since June, Rawalpindi Commissioner Zahid Saeed told Dawn.
He said that the Metro Bus Service Command and Control building, the bridge over the Leh Nullah on Murree Road and the Peshawar Mor intersection remain unfinished and still contractors have missed two deadlines over the last three months.
Saeed, who is also the metro bus project director, said that work on the Peshawar Mor intersection, worth Rs5 billion, was to be completed along with the rest of the project.
But due to a design dispute between the contractor – National Logistics Cell (NLC) – and the designer Nespak, work was stopped and only restarted in May.
RDA officials blame contractors for missing two deadlines
Saeed said that the contractor assured the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) that it would complete the project by October, but then sought more time to complete the project, citing the Eid holidays as the reason for slow progress.