LAHORE: Lahore Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) Steering Committee Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassaan held a progress review meeting on Wednesday in which he gave various directions for the project’s development.
He said that a sign system of international standards should be designed and installed at all metro stations. This was required for the information and guidance of commuters who use the transport. .
He also directed that, “More police wardens may be deputed near all the 11 under-construction elevated metro stations along package-I, where construction activity was in full swing these days, for facilitating smooth flow of traffic in these areas.”
The officials at the meeting were informed that four traffic wardens, who were performing their duties in two shifts, had been designated for escorting the pre-cast structures from the casting yard to the site of installation, to avoid any untoward incident during lifting. The meeting was further told that the reconstruction of roads from Lakshmi Chowk to The Mall and the underground Anarkali metro station at Jain Mander had been commenced. In addition asphalt work on the GT Road from Dera Gujjran to Coop Store as well as Nicholson Road from Bohar Wala Chowk to Lakshmi Chowk had already been completed.
The meeting was also informed that a total of 670 precast U-tub girders would be used for the construction of the elevated track along the package-I route, out of which 220 girders had so far been launched. Similarly a total of 341 transoms would be used along this route out of which 258 had so far been placed.
Work on package II had been resumed and the construction of roads from Thokar Niaz Baig to Ali Town had also started. Eight out of the 23 buildings of the depot, in package-III, had so far been constructed and work for acquisition of the remaining land required for the stabling yard in package IV had also begun.
Provincial Assembly Member Chaudhary Shahbaz Ahmad, Lahore Mayor Col (R) Mubashir Javed, Lahore Development Authority Chief Engineer Asrar Saeed, Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Authority Chief Engineer Saif-ur-Rehman, Punjab Mass Transit Authority senior officials as well as representatives of NESPAK, WASA, LESCO, PTCL, Sui Gas, traffic police, Rescue 1122 and railway, Chinese contractors CR Noroinco and local contractors of the project attended the meeting.
