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Designed by: TEPA, LDA
Status: Under Construction
Contractors: Habib Construction Services
Infrastructure Type: Flyover/Overhead Bridge
Construction Date: SEP 2011
Completion Date: 2012
Client: Government of Punjab
Length: N/A km
Lanes: 3+3 Main Lanes, 2+2 Service Lanes
Area: N/A Acres
Estimated Cost: Rs 3.5 Billions
Location: Ferozepur Road-Canal Road Intersection & Ferozpur Road-Wahdat Road Intersection, Lahore

Render: None
Description: The flyover will pass over the Canal Road and Wahdat Road-Ferozpur Road intersection. This is the longest flyover made in Pakistan (2655 Meters long).

Salient Features of Muslim Town Flyovers, Lahore

Name of Client = Government of Punjab (C & W Department)
Name of Consultant = NESPAK
Name of Contractor = NLC in association with Habib Constructio Services
Date of Commencement of Works = October 28, 2011
Date of Completion = April 21, 2012
Time for Completion = 177 Days (5 months, 25 days)
Length of Flyovers including Ramps
Flyover-1 (Kasur Bound) = 949 M
Flyover-2 (Ichra Bound) = 1308 M
Flyover-3 (Wahdat Road Slip) = 298 M
Total = 2655 Meters
Project Cost = Rs. 2.3 Billions
Number of Spans = 58
Width of Flyover 11 M (Flyover-1 & 2) and 8.1 M (Wahdat Road Slip)
Number of Lanes 3 No. (Flyover-1 & 2) and 2 No. (Wahdat Road Slip)
Number of Piles = 307
Number of Girders = 534
Number of Box Girder = 4 Spans
Radius of Box Girder curve = 48 Meter


Site Plan: N/A
Google Image: See Here
Website: N/A

Edited by Tekno Arkitect, 01 May 2012 - 04:45 PM.
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Road network: Work on new flyover to begin this week

"It will be more complex and about 2.5 times longer – the Kalma flyover has 24 bridge piles whereas this one will have 58," Project director Sabir Khan.

Work on another flyover on Ferozepur Road, crossing the Canal and Muslim Town intersections, will begin in the next few days, officials said.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is to inaugurate the project in a ceremony probably on Wednesday, while the National Engineering Services of Pakistan is putting the final touches to the design, officials involved with the project told The Express Tribune. The Communication and Works Department is executing the project while the National Logistic Cell is the contractor.

The officials said that the flyover is aimed at easing the traffic bottleneck on Ferozepur Road at the Muslim Town and Canal intersections.

There is a particularly slow section between the two intersections, as traffic from Muslim Town headed towards Canal Road jostles with through traffic on Ferozepur Road.

Project director Sabir Khan said that the flyover would consist of two bridges, similar to the Kalma Chowk flyover, and would be about 2.5 times the length of the Kalma Chowk flyover, crossing both the Canal and Muslim Town intersections.

The bridge on the western side of the road, for traffic heading towards Mozang from Kalma Chowk, will start at the Police Motor Transport Office, just after the Gaddafi Stadium traffic lights. The bridge will end just after the Rehmanpura crossing, in front of a Caltex petrol pump. The bridge will be 1.1 km long, and include a ramp for traffic headed to Wahdat Road.

The other bridge will start after Rehmanpura in front of WAPDA hospital and end at the Police Motor Transport Office. It will be 750 metres long. Both bridges will have three lanes each 10 metres wide, while the ramp will be a two-lane structure. A seven-metre wide corridor between the bridges will be left for future public transport projects.

Building the flyover, including land acquisition, will cost about Rs3.5 billion, said Khan. “It will be more complex than Kalma Chowk,” he said. “It will be about 2.5 times longer – the Kalma flyover has 24 bridge piles whereas this one will have 58.”

He said if engineers worked at the same pace as at Kalma Chowk, the flyover would take about 11 months to complete, “but we will try to finish it before that”, he added. He said the government would need to buy about seven kanals for the bridge for traffic heading towards Mozang from Gaddafi Stadium. He said city government and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) officials were working on the land acquisition and would submit their cost estimates soon. He said that they were currently testing stone for use in the construction.

District Coordination Officer Ahad Khan Cheema said that the city district government and the LDA were short of funds and would seek bridge financing from the Punjab government. The city government and the LDA would pay back the Punjab government later.
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LAHORE: Work on another flyover on Ferozepur Road, crossing the Canal and Muslim Town intersections, will begin in the next few days, officials said.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is to inaugurate the project in a ceremony probably on Wednesday, while the National Engineering Services of Pakistan is putting the final touches to the design, officials involved with the project told The Express Tribune. The Communication and Works Department is executing the project while the National Logistic Cell is the contractor.

The officials said that the flyover is aimed at easing the traffic bottleneck on Ferozepur Road at the Muslim Town and Canal intersections.
There is a particularly slow section between the two intersections, as traffic from Muslim Town headed towards Canal Road jostles with through traffic on Ferozepur Road.

Project director Sabir Khan said that the flyover would consist of two bridges, similar to the Kalma Chowk flyover, and would be about 2.5 times the length of the Kalma Chowk flyover, crossing both the Canal and Muslim Town intersections.

The bridge on the western side of the road, for traffic heading towards Mozang from Kalma Chowk, will start at the Police Motor Transport Office, just after the Gaddafi Stadium traffic lights. The bridge will end just after the Rehmanpura crossing, in front of a Caltex petrol pump. The bridge will be 1.1 km long, and include a ramp for traffic headed to Wahdat Road.

The other bridge will start after Rehmanpura in front of WAPDA hospital and end at the Police Motor Transport Office. It will be 750 metres long. Both bridges will have three lanes each 10 metres wide, while the ramp will be a two-lane structure. A seven-metre wide corridor between the bridges will be left for future public transport projects.

Building the flyover, including land acquisition, will cost about Rs3.5 billion, said Khan. “It will be more complex than Kalma Chowk,” he said. “It will be about 2.5 times longer – the Kalma flyover has 24 bridge piles whereas this one will have 58.”

He said if engineers worked at the same pace as at Kalma Chowk, the flyover would take about 11 months to complete, “but we will try to finish it before that”, he added. He said the government would need to buy about seven kanals for the bridge for traffic heading towards Mozang from Gaddafi Stadium. He said city government and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) officials were working on the land acquisition and would submit their cost estimates soon.

He said that they were currently testing stone for use in the construction.
District Coordination Officer Ahad Khan Cheema said that the city district government and the LDA were short of funds and would seek bridge financing from the Punjab government. The city government and the LDA would pay back the Punjab government later.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 20th, 2011.

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Muslim Town Flyover won’t be easy

Funds running low for ‘dangerously designed’ overpass; Traders unhappy with govt plans to demolish shops

Controversies have engulfed the Muslim Town Flyover on Ferozepur Road just 48 hours before the official launch of the project, with construction scheduled to begin on Sunday, October 2. Costing some Rs 3.5 billion, the flyover, which would arch over the Canal and Muslim Town Mor to reach WAPDA Hospital, would be the longest one in the history of Lahore and would be in the shape of a giant S. It would also be the second split flyover built in the city, Kalma Chowk Flyover being the first.

However, construction problems have erupted around the large-scale project after the government announced plans to demolish around 100 shops along the path of the massive overpass. Another hiccup in the ambitious plan is the shortage of funds, along with objections to the shape of the flyover. A similarly shaped flyover built by the NLC in Karachi had collapsed a few years ago, creating doubts about the structural integrity of an S-shaped bridge.

The Punjab Communication and Works (C&W) Department had informally carried out some initial work after Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif approved the project on August 27 and laid the foundation stone on September 20, but controversy reared its head when a number of shops were marked with red paint, a clear indication to traders that these shops had to be razed to make way for the construction of the flyover. Traders headed by Anjuman-e-Tajran Ferozepur Road President Mehboob Ali Sirki took stock of the situation and decided to resist the project.

In a defiant note, they decided to stage protest demonstration if their shops were bulldozed without their consent. Three meetings have since been held to settle the issue but all of them have remained inconclusive. Sirki told Pakistan Today that designs had to be changed to avoid inflicting any damage on traders who had been running their businesses here for a long time. “Though the C&W Department has offered to provide alternative locations along with financial compensation, but change of location will definitely ruin the businesses,” he said.

The tense situation could be prevented, he said, if the demolition was split between the two sides of the road instead of clearing up the entire 18 square feet of required land on only one side, so that the least possible damage was incurred by traders. He said the next round of meetings would be held on Monday and if their demands were not met they would unleash a spell of protests. C&W Project Director Sabir Khan said the government had planned to give 4 kanals of alternative lands to traders with additional parking lanes that would be helpful in boosting their business.

The government would also pay them compensation, he added. Khan claimed that only some shops in Madina Tower and others would be razed to clear the way for the flyover, and that almost 90 percent of traders were agreed on the issue. He said C&W had discussed the issue with Nespak as well to make some changes to the current design in order to reduce the damage to the traders’ shops. “We will try our best to acquire government land instead of private land for an alternative place of business for the [affected] traders,” he added.

A City District Government Lahore (CDGL) official said shortage of funds was also a big problem in the construction of the flyover. He said the chief minister had announced that the CDGL would make available the necessary funds for the project without consulting CDGL. “It was a shock for us as everybody knows the CDGL is cash-strapped and cannot bear the expenses of Rs 3.5 billion for the construction of a flyover,” he said.

He said that during a meeting, Lahore District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ahed Cheema had tried to convince the chief minister to use substitute resources to arrange funds instead of overburdening the CDGL, but Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General (DG) Abdul Jabbar Shaheen had told the chief minister that the authority would arrange funds for the flyover through auction of the plots and land available to the department at the proposed Expo Centre at Johar Town. However, at present there is no confirmation about the availability of funds, because of which construction might stop in the middle, said the official.

Experts believe that S-shaped flyovers should be avoided as they require a high level of expertise in engineering. The smallest flaw in the design might lead to a tragedy, they said. LDA Chief Engineer Israr Saeed said the flyover aimed to make Ferozepur Road a signal-free corridor. He said that the project was likely to be completed by March 20, 2012 by working round-the-clock and it would be formally inaugurated on March 23. He said the estimated cost of flyover’s construction was Rs 3.5 billion, while it would result in savings of Rs 2.8 billion annually in travel costs after its completion.

He said that a provision had also been made for the Bus Rapid Transport System and metro system on Ferozepur Road in the design of Muslim Town Flyover.

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

Courtesy: Habib Construction Services

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: DEC 2011

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Muslim town flyover to be completed by end of March

The Construction of Ichra-Muslim Town Flyover at Ferozepur Road from WAPDA Hospital to Gaddafi Stadium would be completed by the end of March.

Communication and Works department Project Director Sabir Khan told media persons here Tuesday that the construction was in full swing on day and night basis and there was no shortage of funds from the government.

He added that matters related to the land acquisition, shifting of infrastructure and other litigations were resolved.

He said, it would take more time and cost than the Kalma Chowk Flyover which had been constructed in record 135 days with 660 metres length and Rs 2.3 billions cost.

Sabir Khan said that the estimated cost of Muslim Town Flyover was Rs 3.5 billions and it would be more than 200 percent larger than Kalma Chowk project.

Referring the design of the flyover, he said that it would be started from Police Workshop/Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Centre (PITAC) Ferozepur Road and ended in front of WAPDA Hospital.

One of the two main limbs of the bridge would be of 1.1 Kilometre and the other of 0.95 Km besides a 350 metres long branch lane from Kalma Chowk side which would be dropped at Wahdat Road intersection.

Apparently, it was a mega project needed a period of more than nine months to complete but the Chief Minister Muhammed Shahbaz Sharif has given the task to complete it within six months by utilizing the maximum resources and same technique as was used in Kalma Chowk project.

The project Director said that to save the existing infrastructure of Canal Under Pass, water supply ,sewerage and electrification, the engineers were moving carefully on the site.

We are confident to complete the project within the stipulated time and it would be opened for people by end of March, he said.

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Canal Flyover to open on March 23

The Canal Flyover, which will ease traffic and will increase trade activities on the Ferozepur Road, will be inaugurated on March 23, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday. He expressed these views during an inspection of the under-construction Canal Flyover on Ferozepur Road.

Shahbaz directed the DCO to identify a suitable piece of land for constructing a parking plaza on Ferozepur Road for the convenience of people and traders.

While directing to constitute a supervisory committee for ensuring completion of Canal Flyover within stipulated period, the CM said the committee would supervise the construction work regularly. He directed the chief traffic officer to ensure smooth flow of traffic on Ferozepur Road. Parks and Horticulture Authority DG said green areas would be developed alongside Canal Flyover.

Earlier, Communication and Works Secretary Azam Suleman while giving a briefing to the CM said the work on the project of Canal Flyover was being done all round the clock.

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Muslim Town flyover Inauguration to be delayed by a couple of days

Most of the road carpeting of the 1.2-km bridge number two is complete, but the ramp for traffic heading to Wahdat Road is yet to be carpeted.

The second leg of the Muslim Town flyover will not open on April 18, as announced, but is close to completion, the project director told The Express Tribune on Tuesday.

Chief Minster Shahbaz Sharif had set a deadline of March 23 for the flyover, but workers were only able to complete one of the bridges by that date. He had then announced that the second would open on April 18.

However, there is still a couple of days of construction work to go, said Project Director Sabir Khan Sadozai. “We will be able to complete it by Thursday,” he said.

Most of the road carpeting of the 1.2-km bridge number two is complete, but the ramp for traffic heading to Wahdat Road is yet to be carpeted. Concrete barriers and steel railing for the ramp are also missing.

The project director said that only “cosmetic work” like the installation of cat’s eyes and painting lane lines was left. He said carpeting work on the 0.35-km ramp was not possible yet as fresh box girders had been laid which would need time to set till Wednesday. He said that the bridges would be ready by Thursday, but could not say when it would open, as it would first have to be inaugurated by the chief minister.

Officials in the Construction and Works Department said that they were not surprised that the deadlines for the completion of the flyover had been missed, as the initial deadline of March 23 had been “very optimistic” for a flyover of this size. Another challenge was how to keep traffic flowing alongside the construction work.

Engineers in the Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (TEPA) have voiced concerns that once the flyover is complete, a major traffic bottleneck will develop at Ichhra on the Ferozepur Road.

Sadozai conceded that this was a valid concern, but added that a solution was being worked upon. He said that the road at Ichhra would be rebuilt, taking about a month. He said that the junction at Shah Jamal would be redesigned and the traffic signals removed.

Service lanes
The project director said that once the flyover is complete, engineers will start work on the service lanes and roads beneath the bridges, which have suffered extensive damage due to heavy traffic load during the construction. He said that they would finish the work on the service lanes in around a month.

Stores located in the service lanes under the flyover said that the construction work had hurt their businesses and demanded quick repair of the service lanes.

Haji Zulfiqar of Style Wood Furniture said that he had gone from selling about three sets of furniture a day before construction work began to about three in a month over the last six months.

He said that this was a direct result of the reduced access to his shop due to the construction work. Muhammad Naveed, manager of Delite Electronics, said that they had been selling 8 to 10 electronic appliances per day before work on the flyover began. He said they now got no walk-in customers

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: JAN-APR 2012

Courtesy: Habib Construction Services

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Lahore: Muslim Town Mor Flyover

Construction Pix: JAN-APR 2012

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