Infrastructure Development in Pakistan

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DHA Main Office, Block A, Phase VI, Lahore

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

There is no traffic issue. Rather it is the present system that is making it seem that way. People don't want to drive straight in lanes and there is absolutely no culture of traffic signals. Shahbaz Sharif is an idiot when he says he wants to make a 'signal free' road. Use your logic. When you have cars coming from all sorts of directions, you know whats coming. BTW, In Lahore's 15 million population, there are no more than 500,000-1 million cars. Haven't you seen the Ring Road the Canal Bank Road and Flyovers for example empty ? We are wasting our money and its going down the drain. You should know that it costs a fortune to maintain it. He is creating sprawl development. Original Lahore was not as big as it is now today. They have added and extended it from Shahdara to Bahria Town ! Moreover, the DHA (for the elite) is also being extended in new phases. They have made Lahore loose its soul !

I love the fact that apart from the new airport and the ring roads, there has been much construction

but I miss the Lahore of early 1980s (i was a kid). Less traffic, a lot more trees.

 

[arushbhai]

I love the fact that apart from the new airport and the ring roads, there has been much construction

but I miss the Lahore of early 1980s (i was a kid). Less traffic, a lot more trees.

Bro, they have put crap load of trees in lahore. The local govt is going full retard in planting trees. They have planted a lot of trees. Just go on google earth and youll see the difference.

Also, not only that, I think planting trees is something that we can all do. Infact, we can plant fruit trees around our house. We should all take an initiative of planting atleast one tree a year atleast.

 

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CONSTRUCTION OF FLYOVER AND UNDERPASS AT PIR WADHAI MORR, RAWALPINDI

 

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6th Road Junction

 

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Model Town Mor Underpass Lahore

 

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KALMA CHOWK UNDERPASS

 

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BRTS PASSING MUSLIM TOWN MOR

 

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LAHORE BRIDGE

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Road carpeting Completed from Ittefaq Hospital to Model Town Mor.

 

[Edevelop]

Bro, they have put crap load of trees in lahore. The local govt is going full retard in planting trees. They have planted a lot of trees. Just go on google earth and youll see the difference.

Also, not only that, I think planting trees is something that we can all do. Infact, we can plant fruit trees around our house. We should all take an initiative of planting atleast one tree a year atleast.

The issue here in the case of Lahore from my understanding is the style of development. Even with trees there is lack of planning. They have placed Palm trees instead of native Chinar. On the other hand, rather than getting dense, people are getting scattered. These flyovers and roads are designed and made put to use in a way to make that happen. I like how the local government thought of BRT, but they made it complicated especially with stupid arss fences, flyovers, and pedestrian bridges. What was required was a dedicated lane on the ground, walking signals, big pedestrian footpaths, surrounded by trees. Its as simple as that. Look at an example of a green city such as Vancouver. There you have something called proper urban planning and everything fits right.

 

[arushbhai]

Guys imagine if we didnt have all these development projects (roads, bridges, flyovers, ashiana housing, slaughter houses, black cabs, tractors, waste management etc), pakistan wouldve been in great depression. If any of us here are aware of economics, you;d know how many jobs these things created, not only that, how many households these projects fed. United states got out of depression by investing in national infrastructure. US govt built tons of roads, subways, highways, etc, these things created millions of jobs for the jobless. Think about it.

 

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Work on LEW resumes

KARACHI, Nov 26: Work on the Lyari Expressway (LEW) has resumed and it will be completed by December next year, said Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan while visiting the project site in the Dhobi Ghat area.

According to a statement issued on Monday, the governor said that the National Highway Authority would be given the right of way this year for the completion of the project.

He then inspected the under-construction track from Teen Hatti to Dhobi Ghat and issued necessary instructions to the official concerned.

Karachi Commissioner Hashim Raza Zaidi and Brigadier Basim of the NHA briefed the governor on the details of the project.

While around 29,000 families had to be shifted for the Lyari Expressway project, most of them had already been shifted and the shifting of the remaining families would be completed by December, the governor was informed.

He was told that the shifting work was performed in a legal and a transparent manner and in consultation with representatives of the area.

Taking notice of the information that encroachment had reappeared in some of the areas, he directed the commissioner to look into the matter. He directed the officials concerned to undertake plantation on both sides of the Lyari River.

Work on LEW resumes | DAWN.COM

Google Earth updated Some Part Of Karachi!

Teen hatti L.E.W 17th Sept 2012

LEW 23rd Oct 2012.

 

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Lahore BRTS

LAHORE: Two ships carrying 45 articulated buses for the Metro Bus Service (MBS) route are likely to arrive from China at the Karachi seaport in a few days, officials related to the development told Dawn on Monday.
The buses will ply on a 27 kilomtere corridor being constructed from Gajjumatta to Shahdara.
According to officials, buses have been dispatched by the manufacturing company, Volvo China, to Pakistan. The fleet costs over Rs1.260 billion whereas each bus is Rs28 million. As soon as the ships dock at Karachi seaport, a technical team of the Punjab government would go there to deal with unloading, and custom clearance issues.
The fleet will be transported to Lahore from the port through trawlers, Lahore Development Authority Director General Ahad Cheema told Dawn. Each bus is 18 metre long and is right hand drive.
“Every bus has 50 to 60 seats with separate compartments for women and men, and can accommodate 150 passengers in all at a time,” he said.
The metro route will have 27 stations, of that 18 are near completion. The work on the remaining nine stations was being carried out on a fast track and would be completed in a fortnight, he said.
The corridor includes an 8km overhead bridge from Muslim Town Mor to Texali. Mr Cheema said some of the overhead’s portions were still under various phases such as piling, shuttering and concrete and earth filling, adding that the bridge would be completed by mid December.
Mr Cheema said though there was no deadline to launch buses on the MBS, the LDA would be able to know about the tentative dates in the next 15 days.
He said the ongoing construction of Kalma Chowk underpass would not cause a delay in the MBS completion.
“Actually the underpass is not a part of the MBS, and the construction of the route is going on at this particular portion,” he said.
The Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency has been tasked with constructing the Kalma Chowk underpass in two months.

 

[SHAMK9]

Guys imagine if we didnt have all these development projects (roads, bridges, flyovers, ashiana housing, slaughter houses, black cabs, tractors, waste management etc), pakistan wouldve been in great depression. If any of us here are aware of economics, you;d know how many jobs these things created, not only that, how many households these projects fed. United states got out of depression by investing in national infrastructure. US govt built tons of roads, subways, highways, etc, these things created millions of jobs for the jobless. Think about it.

But the bad thing is that it is only focused on eastern Pakistan and big cities like Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad. The current generation in balochistan and KP will probably never see these kinds of development.