ISLAMABAD: Sanitary workers of Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) cleaned the Faizabad Interchange on Tuesday of litter and garbage as protesters cleared the area after their three-week-long sit-in.
MCI employees took to their task of removing heaps of garbage from the bridge which was strewed with plastic bags, food residue and human waste.
Wearing brightly-coloured orange jackets and holding large-sized brooms, the MCI workers expended great efforts from early morning to late afternoon to clean the interchange, which bears a large portion of the traffic load between Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Empty plastic water bottles and polystyrene boxes plagued the site, which was sprayed with disinfectant to remove foul smells. The green belt along the interchange was also cleaned up of the filth which marred it.
The city administration also had to fix a portion of the damaged iron fence partitioning the Murree Road.
The administration hired private 16-wheelers to carry away charred police vans that were set alight by the violent protesters in reaction to the crackdown against them on Saturday.
The opening of Faizabad’s main road has come as a huge relief to commuters between the twin cities, who had been forced to use alternate roads, costing them greatly in terms of convenience, money and time for the past 22 days.