ISLAMABAD – National Highway Authority (NHA) has invited bids foroperations, monitoring and maintenance of eight toll plazas and collectionof toll revenue on Lahore-Abdul Hakeem Motorway (M-3). The term of subjectservices will be initially for 90 days.
An official of NHA told APP that the toll plazas would be handed over tothe successful bidder under emergent situation the motorway is ready foropening .
He said that financial bids for the operations, monitoring and maintenanceand collection of toll on M-3 in sealed envelopes would be received in on March,22 until 1030 am which would be opened on same day at 1100 am.
Construction of Lahore-Abdul Hakeem Motorway ( M-3) has already beencompleted and the project is likely to be opened for traffic later thismonth.All physical work of this section had already been completed but due tosome technical issues such as delay in approval for deployment of motorwaypolice on this section, the motorway could not yet been opened.
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Total length of the motorway is 230 kilometres and it is a six-lane highwaywhich would cut down commute time by two hours between the two cities.
Having 8 interchanges, 35 bridges and 16 underpasses, the construction workon the project had started back in 2015.
