PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Friday directed the authorities concerned to make necessary arrangements to execute the Bus Rapid Transit project.
An official handout said that the chief minister presided over a meeting of the Board of Directors (BoD) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urban Mobility Authority here on Friday.
Minister Transport Shah Muhammad Wazir, Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information and Higher Education Mushtaq Ghani, Member Provincial Assembly Mehmood Jan, Chairman Chief Minister's Complaint Cell Dilroz Khan, Chief Secretary Abid Saeed, Additional Chief Secretary Azam Khan and administrative secretaries attended the meeting.
The participants of the meeting had a detailed discussion on the different decisions of the previous BoD. The project has three parts. The first starts from the main bus terminal Chamkani to Qila Balahisar, the second towards Aman Chowk and the third ends at Hayatabad.
Those at the meeting approved the project with mi**r amendments. The chief minister directed that the mi**r changes in the original design of the bus route should **t hinder the timely completion of the entire project.
He directed for accelerated efforts for the timely implementation and completion of the project, adding that the project was his passion and he would never allow any delay whatsoever. He agreed to the third party validation of the original design prepared by Asian Development Bank.
The participants of the meeting were briefed about the process of implementation with special reference to the engineering designs, colour combination, the width and length and the proposed widening of the bus stations.
They were briefed about the project's uniqueness as being the direct service operational model with main corridors length as 26 kilometer including the six kilometer elevated and 5 kilometer tunnel having 32 bus stations and integrating 68 kilometer feeding routes that the chief minister approved.
04-08-2017, 03:52 PM
KP CM orders arrangements for execution of *Bus Rapid Transit project
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