The official said that completion of the 34 kilometre project would ease traffic burden on the roads inside Peshawar city and link to Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway with G.T. Road.
The official said that bottlenecks in the project were sorted out in collaboration with the provincial government which would prove helpful in its early completion.
He said that in the Public Sector Development Programme Rs. 600 million had been allocated for Peshawar Northern Bypass.
The project was approved by Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in 2010 but work was delayed mainly due to non-availability of sufficient funds,he added.
He said that total estimated cost of the project was Rs. 9002.750 million while so far Rs. 5354.316 million had been spent on the project.
He said the project was handed over to the NHA in 2003 and initially a 26km long road was designed to be constructed as part of the Peshawar Ring Road project.
According to the new design, it will be a four-lane expressway that will link the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway with the Peshawar Torkham Expressway and will bypass the Hayatabad and Bara markets ending at the Takhta Beg Bridge near Jamrud.