Kashmir highway: CDA seeks action against trucks using asphalt lanes

[Salman]

ISLAMABAD:
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) had asked the Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) to ban heavy traffic from using the asphalt lanes of Kashmir Highway as it could damage the road.
An official of CDA Directorate of Roads said a letter had been written to ITP, requesting action against the overloaded vehicles moving on the normal lanes. He said that five lanes were constructed on both sides of Kashmir Highway, two of them each prepared with concrete particularly for heavy vehicles and the other three asphalt ones for normal traffic.
But the heavy traffic was also using the other lanes, which were designed for small vehicles, he added. The official said that flow of heavy traffic on normal lanes could damage the Kashmir Highway as an estimated 10,000 trucks enter Islamabad through the highway every day.
It is pertinent to mention here that the 8.5 kilometers long five-lane Kashmir Highway with two rigid and five flexible lanes has recently been completed with a revised cost of Rs4.2 billion.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2014.