Capital Development Authority (CDA) had asked Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) to impose ban on heavy traffic for running on asphalt lanes of Kashmir Highway as it could damage the road.
An official of CDA, Directorate of Roads said that a letter had been written to ITP, requesting to take action against the overloaded vehicles moving on the normal lanes. He said that five lanes were constructed on both sides of Kashmir Highway, two of them were prepared with concrete particularly for heavy vehicles and the other three asphalt ones for normal traffic. However, the heavy traffic were also using the other lanes, which were designed for small vehicles, he added.
The official said that flow of heavy traffic on normal lanes could damage the Kashmir Highway as an estimated 10,000 trucks enter Islamabad through the highway every day.
This is pertinent to mention here that the 8.5-kilometer long five-lane Kashmir Highway with two rigid and five flexible lanes were completed with a revised cost of Rs 4.2 billion for the present year.
