KARACHI: Police authorities on Thursday announced the closure of second track of M.A. Jinnah Road for the construction of the Green Line bus project from Dec 1. One track of the road was already closed in October 2018 for the same reason, an official said on Thursday.

The spokesman for the Karachi traffic police said that the road leading from the Numaish traffic intersection to Capri Cinema would remain closed for development work of the federal government-funded project.

All traffic meant to move on the track has been advised to take alternative routes.

“From December the development work will begin on M.A. Jinnah Road on the second track from Numaish towards Capri due to which the road will be closed. Traffic will be diverted from Numaish to People’s Secretariat and then to Preedy Street,” he said.

Although he did not mention any time period of the road closure, an official privy to the details said that the work would take “weeks”.

After the closure of the track leading to Numaish from Capri Cinema in Oct 2018, traffic is being diverted to Bahadur Yar Jang Road as an alternative route.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2018