The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Monday directed the Kashmir Highway project contractors to speed up their work, said a CDA spokesperson, adding that the highway’s expansion work would be completed by December.
He said that the Kashmir Highway would be widened to five-lanes on both sides from the current two. He told that the project had commenced in February 2012 and was estimated to cost Rs 4.8 billion.
The spokesperson said that the new IslamabadAirport’s construction work would be completed by next year, and coupled with the expansion of residential sectors it would increase the traffic volume, for which the Kashmir Highway’s widening project had been undertaken.