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[Tekno Arkitect]

Designed by: N/A
Status: Completed
Contractors: N/A
Infrastructure Type: Urban Boulevard/Avenue
Construction Date: N/A
Completion Date: N/A
Location: From Shah Faisal Masjid to Zero Point Interchange, Islamabad

Google Image:

updated in 2009 - Although there are much changes on site that year











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[Tekno Arkitect]

FEB 2009







Courtesy: APP Photographers

[Tekno Arkitect]

SEP 2009





I had to cut down the speed while cycling. This culvart came up suddenly. It could have been designed in a better way so that the connectivity of the walkway did not get broken.





The green buffer zone around the avenue has been designed with small pestrian precincts. The character of the green area can be improved by developing a proper park where people from the surrounding neighbourhoods can come and use it. Thus this green area will become a more vibrant space.

[Tekno Arkitect]

Indiscipline at Faisal Avenue roundabout hampers traffic

Friday, February 05, 2010
Myra Imran

Islamabad

With the Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) seemingly having given up on educating motorists on how to negotiate a roundabout, it is now pressing the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to install signals at a troublesome junction, which is the city fathers’ very own creation.

The roundabout that forms part of the Faisal Avenue Flyover was supposed to ease the flow of traffic, but it turned out to be a bottleneck so bad that the ITP had to block one side of it. “We have asked CDA to install traffic signals at this roundabout, as it is the only workable solution considering that no one is ready to respect the other’s right of the way,” ITP’s Sub-Inspector Sher Khan told ‘The News.’

The situation at roundabouts elsewhere in town is no different. Being a nation not amenable to discipline, it comes as no surprise to see evidence of it all around the metropolis each day. Jumping queues, haphazard parking, littering, honking, driving on a high beam, bunking traffic signals, spitting, public peeing and what not — you name it and this town has it. Discipline was tossed out of the window long before the Capital Development Authority (CDA) put up Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s motto of ‘Unity, Faith, Discipline’ on a hillock along the Islamabad Expressway. Those golden words of the Quaid continue to adorn the hill yet the road immediately below is a picture of indiscipline as are scores of others. No one seems to pay heed to speed limits, stopping at a traffic signal would depend largely on the mood of those behind the wheel and staying in lane is a difficult proposition indeed. It is a virtual free for all. Also along the Expressway, plastic bags of all colours dot both of its stretches — of course the handiwork of the residents in adjacent localities. That there aren’t any dustbins around is a different story.

Although traffic in Islamabad is still much better than almost all other cities, signs of restlessness and carelessness are quite visible. With over 200 new vehicles being registered in Islamabad daily, the traffic situation is only going to get worse in the days ahead, which would mean added pressure on the traffic police. In the absence of discipline, things are certainly going to go bad in and around the metropolis in the days to come. Already there is no discipline as far as this aspect goes with greenbelts, pavements, no-parking zones and even roads serving as parking places. Plans of building parking plazas in Blue Area and elsewhere have perhaps been shelved but even if they were up today, no one would be parking in them considering that there’s so much of free and haphazard parking available all around!

Away from the roads, traffic and parking plazas, lack of discipline is also evident when it comes to using other public facilities, say for example toilets. There are people who would prefer peeing outside rather than go inside to relieve themselves. But those who do go in wouldn’t bother to flush or wipe the seat. The dirty habit of spitting has become so common that people who spit perhaps have no realisation what wrong they are doing. Market places, public eateries, staircases of government buildings and others often remain dotted with sputum. Surely, bad manners and indiscipline have taken root in Islamabad — a town that boasts a literacy rate of 72 per cent!

[Abid Siddiqui]

SEP 2009




The green buffer zone around the avenue has been designed with small pestrian precincts. The character of the green area can be improved by developing a proper park where people from the surrounding neighbourhoods can come and use it. Thus this green area will become a more vibrant space.

excellent

[aliee]

all pics are excellent wow

[Tekno Arkitect]

Flawed Interchange design to cost CDA Rs700 million

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) would construct another two flyovers on Faisal Avenue against Rs700 million to address the engineering flaws of the already constructed Jinnah-Faisal Avenue Interchange.

According to a CDA official, the Authority would soon finalize project’s design and table it before the CDA Board to approve it that would follow the award of contract.

In 2009, the Authority had spent around Rs1 billion on the interchange on the intersection of Jinnah Avenue and Faisal Avenue containing an underpass and a flyover supposed to cater traffic moving to and from Blue Area, the downtown of the federal capital.

The Authority ignored the repeated warnings from various circles that design of the underpass contained flaws and would cause traffic congestion at the intersection instead of ensuring smooth traffic flow.

Even the Planning Commission had also asked the CDA to revise the design as it would not cater to the traffic coming to and from two service roads named Fazl-e-Haq and Nazimuddin.

The Authority had dualized both of the Service Roads costing millions of rupees to address the swelling traffic congestion but the interchange had disconnected roads causing traffic congestion.

Even the civic body had failed to realize the existence of two major hospitals on Fazl-e-Haq Road including PIMS and Polyclinic where the ambulances frequently move but since the construction of interchange, they had to adopt alternate routes.

Even, according to a CDA official, the contractor firm had also proposed the CDA to review the design or build two overhead bridges to link both service roads otherwise the motorists would have to cover long distance to reach other sides of the roads.

Soon after completion of the interchange, the CDA had to install traffic signals on the Jinnah Avenue after witnessing massive traffic congestion on the intersection contrary to the idea of uninterrupted traffic flow behind construction of the interchange.

However, the CDA is in the process of designing another two flyovers on both the service roads that would cost it Rs700 million amidst the situation when it had been starving for funds even to bear salaries of its employees.

“Had these overhead bridges been constructed simultaneously with the interchange, it would have cost not more than Rs400 million with minor modification in the design,” said an official.

[Zain Abbass]

Had you not realized that culvert was there you would have gone face first into those rocks. It is almost as if CDA designed that sidewalk to kill bicyclists!

I guess that is one way to slow down our population growth rate.