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Chairman Capital Development Authority Amir Ali Ahmed said that the CDA had constituted a committee comprising Deputy Commissioner and Member Planning CDA for talking to owners of private housing societies along Expressway for contribution of their share in expansion of the city’s busiest artery.
Moreover, taking cognizance of the high number of reported accidents on the major avenues of the federal capital due to less number of crossing bridges for the pedestrians, Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) have urged CDA to provide the mandatory facility to them on short distance for the sake of their life.
Talking to APP, ITP Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Farrukh Rashid urged Capital Development Authority (CDA) to build pedestrian bridges/underpasses on the busy thoroughfares of Islamabad, especially on Islamabad Expressway.
“There is an urgent need to build 21 pedestrian-cum-biker bridges over the overburdened Islamabad Expressway to ensure the safety of the citizens,” he stressed.
The 27km long artery, accommodating huge influx of population on both sides from Faisal Mosque to Rawat, had only four or five bridges, posing threat to the life of road users.
He said ITP had identified critical areas from Sohan to Kak Bridge where majority of the public mobility took place and a number of cases of accidents were consecutively reported.
The SSP said the Express Way being an Inter-provincial artery required urgent attention as the population burden along its both sides was ever increasing, inviting multiple problems of traffic flow and public safety.
When contacted the CDA”s spokesman said there were six bridges constructed for the pedestrian/bikers movement while four more would be erected under the Islamabad Expressway signal free corridor project likely to be completed this year.
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