Dunya News - Shahbaz Sharif opens Azadi Chowk flyover built in record time

  • 10 years ago
The total length of flyover interchange is 2.53-km. Two lakh vehicles will benefit daily from this project and Rs 900 million will be saved annually in fuel. Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Shahbaz Sharif said Azadi Chowk Project was completed in a short period of six months. He said not only best travelling facilities will be available from it but precious time will be saved and metro bus will also pass through it without any loss of time.

He said: “We do not want a long march which ruins people but we will launch a long march to make Pakistan a developed and prosperous country”. The CM said Azadi Chowk Project will play an important role in the economic development as well as enhancing beauty of Lahore.

He said after completion of this project, great national monuments including Badshahi Mosque, Lahore Fort and Minar-e-Pakistan will be saved from environmental pollution. Shahbaz Sharif said that Lahore is the city of lively people which has the honour of being heart of Asia and cultural capital of Pakistan. We all have to jointly make Lahore a city of beautiful parks, gardens and flowers, the CM said.

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