Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has laid the foundation stones of two mega projects focused on solving traffic congestion in the city of Lahore, an advertisement in leading newspapers read.
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The projects include the rehabilitation and improvement of the Saggian Road Road project and the Shahdra Multilevel Flyover project. As per the news report, the Saggian Road rehabilitation project would cost PKR 4.51 billion and would save annual fuel costs of PKR 500 million. Similarly, the Shahdra Multilevel Flyover would cost PKR 8.9 billion and be completed in 10 months.
As per the government sources, the Saggian Road project comprises two packages; one from Ravi Bridge to Lahore-Sheikhupura Road and the other from Phool Mandi Chowk to Faizpur Interchange (M-2 Motorway). The project’s Package-1 features a 3.90-kilometre-long and 15-feet-wide three-lane dual carriageway. While Package 2 will be a 4.40-kilometre-long and 110-feet-wide two-lane dual carriageway. The estimated cost of the packages is PKR 1.5457 billion and PKR 1.5273 billion, respectively.
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Both projects are part of CM Elahi’s PKR 20 billion mega projects package for the city, which also includes the Samanabad Underpass, the Samanabad Cricket Ground, and the Gulshan-e-Ravi T Junction Underpass project.
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