Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the largest Beijing Underpass of Pakistan at Canal Road here on Sunday.
After inauguration, the CM visited the underpass and inspected it. The 1.3km long underpass has been completed in a short period of 125 days. The Beijing Underpass is of height 5.1 meters through which any kind of traffic can pass and 2.5 lac vehicles will pass through it daily besides completion of this project has provided signal free Canal Road from Thokar Naiz Baig to Herbanspura.
While talking to the media, the CM said that the Beijing Underpass project has cost Rs 3.5 billion and this Pakistan’s largest underpass has been completed in record period. ‘I heartedly congratulate the people of Lahore at the wonderful and timely completion of this project’, he added and further said that this underpass of 1.3 km was a masterpiece of architecture which would improve the flow of traffic.
He said that passages of railway vehicles have also been built on this underpass which would also facilitate transportation of railways.
He said, ‘Pakistan’s largest underpass has been named as Beijing Underpass and this project was a notable memorandum of Pakistan-China friendship also we have China’s Consulate General Long Ding Bin among us today’. He said that Beijing Underpass was actually a bridge for the relations of Lahore and Beijing.
He said that Pakistan and China cherished perpetual friendship and we were grateful to China’s leadership and people for giving us the striking gift of Pak-China Economic Corridor as this gift expressed their love for Pakistani people and we were proud of it. He further added that China has invested more than Rs 60 billion under CPEC and this economic plan would bring prosperity throughout the region.
He said that Pakistan would not only witness a new era of development and prosperity but also entire region would be benefitted from this economic project.
Earlier, the LDA DG briefed the CM about the project and said that the project has been completed by working around the clock and its operation would facilitate the mobility of citizens in the coming days.
