LAHORE – The National Highway Authority has announced that the much-awaited Multan-Lahore Motorway would be made functional and will open to traffic in April 2018 in line with the orders of the government to complete the project at the earliest.
The NHA officials expressed that the motorway will help in reducing the travelling distance from Lahore to Multan to three hours which currently takes five hours.
Moreover, the official continued that the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway would be completed by August 2018.
“The eastern bypass from Kala Shah Kaku will also be opened before the completion of the motorway,” said the officials.
Furthermore, the work on Faisalabad-Multan Motorway was under way with a full swing and the said highway has been divided into six sections with around 58-kilometre long Faisalabad-Gojra section already functional, reported Express Tribune.
“Work on 31 kilometres Gojra-Toba, 30-kilometre Toba-Shorkot, 31-kilometre Shorkot-Dinpur, 34-kilometre Dinpur-Khanewal and 55.6-kilometre Khanewal-Multan section was in progress,” detailed the NHA officials.
Besides, the 68.3% work had been completed on 230 kilometre long Lahore-Abdul Hakeem Motorway and remaining work will be completed by August 2018, the officials pointed out.
