GPO Chowk To Be Open For Traffic By March 31
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published February 25, 2018 | 09:55 PM
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Feb, 2018 ) :Efforts have been geared up for completing necessary work regarding construction of underground station for Orange Line Metro Train on The Mall and opening GPO Chowk for traffic by the March 31.
Advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab and Chairman of the steering committee for Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project (LOMTP) Khawaja Ahmad Hassan told reporters during a visit of the site on Sunday.
He said that the construction of elevated track near Shalimar Gardens had also been completed after Gulabi Bagh and Buddhu's Tomb on GT Road where construction work had earlier been stopped on restraining order by the court.
He said that construction of 12 kilometers long elevated portion of track in Package-1, from Dera Gujjran to Mecleod Road, was near completion as 652 out of the total 670 U-tub girders had so far been launched for construction of viaduct for the train.
The remaining girders will also be launched within two days for filling the 200 meters long gap near Lakshmi Chowk, he added. He said that two thousand piles, out of a total of 2,300, had so far been constructed for the structure of GPO station and barrel-2 of the 1.7 kilometers long cut and cover portion of the track from Mecleod Road to Chouburji.
A retaining wall had also been constructed for preservation of tomb of Baba Mouj Derya situated near the track and work for fixing stone on fa�ade of Anarkali Station had been commenced. He said that all 27 train sets for Lahore Orange Line had been dispatched to Pakistan from China out of which 19 had reached here while the remaining eight were being shipped to Karachi.
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