The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has finalized two major projects to upgrade Murree Road from Saddar to Faizabad, including the addition of new service lanes between Liaquat Bagh and Chandni Chowk. The proposed work carries an estimated cost of Rs. 9 billion.
RDA Director General Kinza Murtaza said the Punjab government asked civic bodies to submit improvement plans for Rawalpindi. In response, the RDA prepared two separate schemes to rehabilitate Murree Road, which remains the busiest corridor between Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
She said Murree Road’s condition has deteriorated significantly and requires urgent rehabilitation to ensure smoother travel for daily commuters. Under the first project, the RDA plans to build service roads on both sides from Liaquat Bagh to Chandni Chowk.
The project, valued at Rs. 8.1 billion, will make the corridor signal-free from Marrir Chowk to Faizabad. She said the detailed design will be finalized after the provincial government releases funds, while surveys for land acquisition are already underway.
According to Kinza Murtaza, most of the allocated funds will be spent on acquiring land, and the widened corridor will improve traffic capacity and ease congestion. Existing service lanes between Chandni Chowk and Faizabad will complement the new additions.
Under the second project, the RDA will spend Rs. 953 million to rehabilitate the main Murree Road stretch from Saddar Flashman’s to Faizabad. The plan includes re-carpeting, which has not been carried out since 2014, following the construction of the Metro Bus elevated track.
She said the RDA has formally requested funding from the Punjab government and will submit the schemes under the city’s upcoming mega development package.
Why funds should be given for murree road rawalpindi over and over again. Please provide separate lane for metro bus to reduce travell time as electric buses are too slow which are nit meeting our reqiuirements.
Why funds should be given for murree road rawalpindi over and over again. Please provide separate lane for metro bus on peshawar road rawalpindi to reduce travell time as electric buses are too slow which are nit meeting our reqiuirements
Addition of two lanes on both sides especially between liaqat Bagh and central hospital will ease the congestion. The work should be started as soon as possible as only land acquisition, demolishing and road construction are required which will be done earlier as compared to constructing underpass and over head bridges. It will be great relief for whole residents of rawalpindi
What will happen to decades old shop keepers along noth side of murree road
لیہ نالے کی سائیڈ وں پر جو روڈ بن سکتی ہیں اس کے بارے میں بھی کچھہ سوچیے
I fail to imagine how will it be done. Both sides of the road are filled with tall buildings and passage remains narrow. The creation of service lanes will cause greater confusion. Only option seems that a number of buildings will be demolished to get sufficient space for widening and the proposed service lanes.
All the previous governments have been purposely avoiding that because it was proposed by Sheikh Rashid. The PTI government could have started it but failed and in the end hurried up initiation but the government was dissolved.
Leh nullah expressway is the best and cheapest option. Denying credit to Sheikh Rasheed at the cost of denying benefits to the citizens is not fair. I recommend it must be constructed and named after Maulana Edhi.
If Rawalpindi traffic problem has to be solved then construction Layee expressway. It will solve more than 50% traffic problem. This project has been politically victamised.
Rawalpindi urgently need a bypass to connect GT road from Tarnol with GT road Gujjar Khan.
Building layee Express will be more fruitful than rehabilitation of the murree road.
Rawalpindi Awam should wake up and understand the real needs
So far no improvement for Rawalpindi other then cant. Area development of murree road lie express and inside city slum for proper drainage Whole down town need reshaping in master plan. Private streching landscape to extension 8 phase original Rawalpindi is slum crowding and neglected as belong to no one
Kon log ho jo yeh policies banatey hain, o bhai Pindi/Islamabad ko aur kitna set karo gey, 5 saal sey agey bhi kabhi soch lia karo, long term socho aur new cities banao taakey resources long term k liye preserve ho jayen.
Good decision
To be honest, the lanes are already wide enough, if only the public follows the lane discipline and traffic rules, all this expense can be avoided atleast 50% if not all.
I wish, this Rs.9.0 billion would be spent on planting trees instead,the most important issue at stake here. What’s the point of giving relief to the main cause of pollution.
How many feet’s road cut from marrir Chowk to Chandni chowk
It is all an already failed initiative. The most powerful president Ayub had tried to widen Murree Road by purchasing all the properties on the sides of Murree Road but could not do anything due to very high prices and serious objections of the citizens. Now, from where the signal free service roads would grow up, unless a flyover over the metro buses raised tracks?