ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The 25.6 kilometre-long Metro Bus Service linking Peshawar Mor with New Islamabad Airport Metro will be completed by August 2017, an official of the National Highway Authority (NHA) said on Friday.
Talking to the state-run news agency in Islamabad, the NHA official said that the work on the newly-launched Metro Bus Service worth 16.86 billion has gained full momentum.
The official said that the project will have nine bus stations including NHA Station, G-10 Station, NUST Station, G-1 Station, GT Road Station, Badana Kalan Station, M-1-M2 Junction Station and Airport Station. He said that the project will have 12 bridges, 26 culverts, and 11 underpasses.
To ensure timely completion, the official said, the project has been divided in four packages including Package I from Peshawar Mor to NUST, Package II from NUST to GT Road, Package III from GT Road to Motorway Interchange and Package IV from Motorway Interchange to New airport. He said that the length of Package-I is 8 kilometres, length of Package-II 3.8 km, length of Package-III is 8.3 km while Package-IV has 5.5 km length.
While giving breakup of the package-wise expenditure of the project, he said that the cost of the four packages would be Rs 6.58 billion, Rs 5.5 billion, Rs 1.38 billion and Rs 1.63 billion respectively.
The work on Packages-IV had started in June last year, on Package-III in March this year and work on Packages I and II started in April.
To a question, the official said that work on the packages I and II had been completed about 15 percent while on package III about 75 percent. About the Package IV, he said that it had been substantially completed.
