Nazim Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that traffic flow in the city has become smooth because of construction of flyovers, underpasses, roads and U-turns.
He said that speedy traffic has been causing difficulties and problems for pedestrian s crossing the roads. He said City Government has done a complete survey on this count and are constructing overhead bridges for pedestrian s at 80 locations.
He was speaking on the occasion of inauguration of Yusuf Bhoy Waziri Overhead Bridge near Bohri Jamaat Khan at Shaheed-e-Millat Road. MNA Rasheed Godel, Nazim Gulshan Town Wasey Jalil, Naib Nazim Shoaib Akhtar and a large number of area residents were present on the occasion.
Mustafa Kamal said that because of rising cost of iron and steel, each bridge is costing Rs 10 million, but city government is determined to complete the project to facilitate the citizens. He referred to complaints being received that men and women moving in and out of Jamaat Khana had been facing problems in road crossing and said that keeping this in view, the construction of bridge here was decided on priority basis.
He pointed out that steel bridges are fabricated by Steel Mill only and time is required for the number of bridges needed by city government. However Steel Mill has promised to fabricate and supply three bridges in a month and, therefore, it can be expected that three pedestrian bridges will be installed every month. He said until steel bridges are installed, zebra crossings will be painted at selected places where traffic and community police helps people in road crossing.
Mustafa Kamal said that places at major roads, near educational institutioins, religious buildings and places have been selected for pedestrian bridges.
However, he said, 21 bridges will be installed at signal-free corridor-II while eight bridges have been installed at signal-free corridor-I and planning was in hand for installation of four more bridges.
He said from whereever reports of accidents were received or wherever demand was made by citizens, city government decided to construct bridge there. In this regard he named Sharea Faisal, University Road, Rashid Minhas Road, Shershah Suri road, National Highway, M.A. Jinnah road, Nishtar road, Nawab Siddiq Ali Khan road, Mujahid Ali Brelvi road, S.M. Taufiq road, Sir Shah Suleman road, Korangi road, I.I. Chundrigar road and other major roads.
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