Lahore: The eight-kilometre long Lahore Ring Road (LRR)’s Southern Loop (SL)-III will be completed by 2020, a news source reported. Details in this regard were shared with LRR Chairman Dr Mujtaba Paracha while he chaired a meeting to discuss the project and its financial aspects.
LRR SL-III will connect Adda Plot on Raiwind Road with Multan Road, completing the ring road loop around Lahore. The project will be developed on Built-Operate-Transfer model. Responding to the details shared, Dr Paracha said that development work on the project will start in 2019.
Like all other loops of LRR, SL-III will also have cameras installed under the Safe City Project. The construction of SL-III will reduce traffic load on the connecting roads. In the meanwhile, the process to plant 500,000 trees along LRR under the Clean & Green Initiative of Prime Minister Imran Khan is underway.
In October, the Government of Punjab approved plans for the construction of Ring Road-II. This ring road will connect Kasur, Lahore, and Sheikhupura. In addition to this approval, funds worth PKR 510 were also reserved for LRR-II in the PKR 30.57 billion package issued to the National Highway Authority on November 1, 2018.
