Funds released for early completion of Peshawar Northern bypass

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The early construction of 34-kilometre long Peshawar Northern Bypass was among the top priorities of the National Highway Authority (NHA), said an NHA official on Sunday.

The official said that the early completion of the project would ease traffic burden on the roads inside the city and link to Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway with GT Road.

He said for the current fiscal year’s Public Sector Development Programme Rs 600 million were allocated for Peshawar Northern Bypass, which had already been released to ensure its timely completion.

He said that the project was approved by ECNEC in January 2010 but work was delayed mainly due to non-availability of sufficient funds. Total estimated cost of the project was 9002.750 million and 5354.316 million had been spent so far, he said.

The official said bottlenecks in the project were sorted out in collaboration with the provincial government which would prove helpful in its early completion.

He said the project was handed over to the NHA in 2003 and initially a 26km long road was designed to be constructed as part of the Peshawar Ring Road project. According to the new design, it would be a four-lane expressway linking Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway with Peshawar Torkham Expressway, while bypassing Hayatabad and Bara markets end at the Takhta Beg Bridge near Jamrud, he added.

 

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