You are comparing apples to oranges.
OK.
What important is How? because they had money
For Direct Cargo Fight but most important was foreign buyer direct flight to city.
Those highways are not suitable for industrial or agricultural growth. Motorways are not built for our leisurely travels.
Motorways are always away from the cities, that is their whole point. Inter-city travel is catered to by other roads. Your point number 3 used to be a thing when M1 and M2 were new, not anymore.
Growth Industrial & Agriculture?
Textile your industry main backbone most unit closed or about too permanently closed other on & off and very few Large Group are showing growth. Reason High Power Generation cost not Motorway.
Agriculture Sector heavily depend on Canal water for which you need dam not Motorway.
Motorway is always away but who will improve existing Highway which are direct route.
As mentioned before as well, the existing highways are completely unsuitable for expansion since all of them were built on the older models of highways running through towns and cities which is exactly what a motorway isn't supposed to do.
If you remember they have bypass for major cities even small one and yes there are shops & homes here and there on the way but space is still there to add more lanes.
Motorways are anything but luxury. They are essential to any regions industrial growth, which in Pakistan needs multiple steroid shots. The only thing worth mentioning that the PMLN has ever done is building those two motorways. Motorways bring industrial growth through out their length, create opportunities in regions which never had any, from agriculture to industry, everyone benefits from them. The cement industry throughout central to northern Punjab is a great example of what a motorway can do for an industry.
Motorway will give temporary boast to sector related to its Constructions & materials.
what you forget its nothing new we already had road not as good as motorway but roads are there.
Pls Explain Textiles industries in Lahore/Faisalabad closed. Reason Cost of doing business (Electricity) is too high. When there was no Motorway b/w Fsb-Lhr & Karachi this sector show huge boom. Will your Motorway Give them Boost?
Pls Explain Agri sector How will you replace Water with motorway??? Will your motorway help crop grow faster or very less water?
You are comparing apples and oranges again. If dams are the heart transplant then motorways are the medication that stops your body from rejecting that transplant. This is a severe lack of understanding of how motorways work within a given economy.
Lol! no dam no cheap electricity meaning most industrial unit closed. your logic of few hours or max 24 hour early delivery will change nothing.
motorway logic works when you have no main roads but you already have highway although only 4 lane. which should be 6 lane minimum. like GT road which is much wider.
I have. And you are again under the impression that these motorways are primarily there for leisure use. Those HTVs are what these highways and motorways are most important to. Your travel from Karachi to Lahore has a minuscule impact on the country's economy, if at all, and is not what those highways are essentially for. And take it from someone who has worked in supply chain in Pakistan and Canada; motorways are a life saver. So much so that I made my company bear the extra costs of having all our major suppliers in Karachi stock warehouses in Islamabad just for us. Why? The extra cost was worth the reliability of receiving our raw materials on time. I can also get you in contact with our reps in satellite locations whose daily mantra includes the moaning of how they need better connectivity in their region when their supplies take a day to travel the first 2000 KM and then two more to travel the next 500.
i shared may experience because when i say road has a capacity its true because i have seen it with my own eyes.
HTV occupied Fast Lane or Car Lane because that Road do not have Middle Lane which they can use while overtaking.
you are not alone i am also one of those who prefer motorway but whats important is not me or you or people you deal with who trust me are in number but are small one in this markets segment.
Trust me Situation is not good in Pakistan & problem is Expensive energy.
And are you suggestion that we build limited access motorways through the middle of existing cities and then build bypasses? Take a moment to recognise the 4 very major and obvious flaws in this plan. After you're done with that ponder a little bit on why were those bypasses built? Why were they needed? Do you not see it?
And once you're done with all of the above please give us a rough idea of how many population centres does, say, the GT Road pass through on average in a 100Km stretch. We will then figure out how many bypasses need to be built on that 100Km stretch.
No Sir you misread. i am not saying built. i am only pointing that Bypass already exist for Cities & even small one.
No Sir you misread. i am not saying built. i am only pointing that Bypass already exist for Cities & even small one.
No you don't because they have very few Shops or houses and not many people cross.
80-100Km speed is ok whats not is 5~10KM speed because of HTV. Reduce speed SIgn is only few and small patches but that is not the problem.
Existing Lhr-Khi Road has space what it needed is two more lane. You should also think about common man Suffering due too those 4 lane. Like you and me they also are citizen of this country.
No you don't because they have very few Shops or houses and not many people cross.
80-100Km speed is ok whats not is 5~10KM speed because of HTV. Reduce speed SIgn is only few and small patches but that is not the problem.
You've lost us again. The obvious efforts to replace the GT Road, Multan Road and N-5 with motorways should be enough for one to understand that these highways built on the older models (ancient in the GT Road's case) just aren't cutting it. How is this not obvious?
Existing road still has potential(Space) i am talking about Lhr-Khi Road & they genuinely need more lane due to congestion. Motorway will help people like you & me. But fact is most people who travel b/w Lhr-Khi are neither like you & me. This Road will still have more traffic then Motorway.
You mean the part where it connects to the city? Do you not see what you are saying?
Go through the following for a basic understanding of what proper roads can do for your economy.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/74747/10/10_chapter-3.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.g...achment_data/file/212590/action-for-roads.pdf
The last one is particularly interesting as it shows how a country as small as England which already has an extensive network of Motorways covering pretty much all of its territory is still trying to improve them to benefit its economy.
I pointed that magical motorway part from Karachi to Hyderabad which is more like GT road then Motorway because its just the name change.
Sir it will improve economy if you have industry. You industry is suffering due to energy crisis motorway will not help.
