Shahrah-e-Bhutto
{{Short description|Road in Pakistan}}
Shahrah-e-Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Shahrah-e-Bhutto){{Cite web |title=Shahrah-e-Bhutto realisation of Benazir’s Karachi Package of 90s: CM |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1271265-shahrah-e-bhutto-realisation-of-benazir-s-karachi-package-of-90s-cm |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=www.thenews.com.pk |language=en}}{{Cite web |author=Web Desk |date=2025-01-11 |title=Bilawal Bhutto Zardari inaugurates phase one of Malir Expressway |url=https://english.aaj.tv/news/330397445/bilawal-bhutto-zardari-inaugurates-phase-one-of-malir-expressway |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Aaj English TV |language=en}} formally known as Malir Expressway is a 39 km under-construction expressway between KPT Interchange (through Qayyumabad) and the Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway near Kathore, along the Malir River in Karachi, Pakistan.{{Cite web|title=CM Murad Ali Shah to lay foundation stone of Malir Expressway next month|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/730042-cm-murad-ali-shah-to-lay-foundation-stone-of-malir-expressway-next-month|access-date=2020-10-17|website=www.thenews.com.pk|language=en}} One of the major infrastructure developments in Karachi city which is unviable for the provincial government and detrimental to the city's climate. It was announced that half of it would be opened on 14 August 2023, but the opening has been indefinitely delayed after the Asian Development Bank withdrew the funding for the construction;{{Cite web |last=Siddiqui |first=Tahir |date=2023-04-29 |title=ADB decides against financing Karachi’s Malir Expressway |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1749861 |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}} as of right now there is illegal excavation happening on the Malir River bed and the fields of Malir.
Typical cross-section
It will be a Six-lane carriageway. With three lanes going forth, and another three back,{{Cite web|date=2020-10-16|title=CM approves Link Road for Korangi|url=https://nation.com.pk/16-Oct-2020/cm-approves-link-road-for-korangi|access-date=2020-10-17|website=The Nation|language=en}} It has also been declared to be a six-lane carriageway in the documentation of the Asian Development Bank. It will have a three-lane service road on both sides.
Structures
The project includes three flyovers and eight underpasses.{{Cite web|date=2020-10-15|title=Work to begin on Malir Expressway next month|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/2268543/work-to-begin-on-malir-expressway-next-month|access-date=2020-10-17|website=The Express Tribune|language=en}} Malir expressway is a 4-lane with 3m side Shoulders dual carriageway and a 7.9m raised central median, for future expansion.[https://bahriatownlistings.com/malir-expressway/ Malir Expressway 4-Lane expansion]
DBFOT
Design, Built, Finance, Operate & Maintain and Transfer (DBFOT) arrangement with a concession period of 28 years{{Cite web|title=Malir Expressway Project - PPP Unit GoS|url=http://www.pppunitsindh.gov.pk/projects_mew.php|access-date=2020-10-18|website=www.pppunitsindh.gov.pk}}
Southern alternative route
The expressway would serve as the Southern alternative route for carrying traffic of the port and industrial areas to main highways.{{Cite web|title=Rs39bn contract for Karachi's Malir Expressway approved|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/602191-cm-sindh-approves-rs39bn-contract-to-construct-malir-expressway|access-date=2020-10-17|website=www.thenews.com.pk|language=en}} It will not reduce traffic on the existing Shahrah-e-Faisal since the expected traffic flow will be mostly of high-income car passengers, whereas the traffic on Sharae Faisal will be redistributed on all the other public transport projects happening in the city
Interchanges
{{Cleanup road junction list|date=October 2022}}
- Qayyumabad
- EBM Causeway
- Korangi – Shah Faisal Colony Bridge
- Shahrah-e-Faisal (N-5) near Quaidabad
- Between 25 and 30 km
- Kathore on Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway (M-9)
See also
References
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