ISLAMABAD – Asian Development Bank (ADB) – the financer of the BRT – hasshown satisfaction over the pace and quality of the project.
ADB’s officials made these remarks while formally speaking to media aftertaking a test ride on the BRT route.
Information Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Shaukat Yousufzai and otherofficials were also present.
The officials were satisfied that the project was on par with internationalstandards and that was completed within the standard duration.
“Projects of such nature normally complete in 24 to 30 months all over theworld, while Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) completed the BRT projectin record time 15 months,” they said.
They defended the long delay of the project by saying that the engineershad to make changes on certain points which caused the delay.
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“The architects of the projects were facing issues in the design near thereach-1 (Gulbahar) and reach-2 (Tehkal) which compelled them to modifythings at specific points keeping in mind the flow of the traffic incertain areas.”
To a question, the Information Minister said, “We had no plan to run theproject in front of Sunehri Masjid (mosque), but the protest and agitationof the traders’ unions compelled us to ask the PDA to run the elevatedpoint opposite Saddar bazaar.”
*Via: Tribunelink*
