The City District Government has invited bids from interested entrepreneurs for construction of a world-class inter-city bus terminal at Multan Road near Tokhar Niaz Beg, on BOT basis.
Spread over an area of 480 kanals, this joint venture project would cost Rs 500 million for construction to the successful bidder whereas share of the CDG would be in the form of land, worth Rs 150 million.
District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood told elected representatives of people here on Sunday.
This latest bus terminal, equipped with state of the art facilities, would have a capacity of handling six thousand incoming and outgoing buses daily. Construction of fire station, restaurants, shopping area and mosque were also part of building plan besides workshops, filling and service station and parking areas for buses, taxies and other private vehicles, he added.
New access roads would be constructed besides introduction of more urban transport routes for providing easy access to the travellers to the new terminal, informed the Nazim.
He said that the CDG would lodge a formal request with the federal government for improvement of Kot Lakhpat, Shahdara and Cantt Railway stations and making them stopping points for major trains, with a view to reducing traffic load from the city roads.
Mian Amer Mahmood told that the Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (TEPA) had been directed for constructing special areas for parking five thousand goods carrying trucks, trolleys and passengers buses at three places in the city.
Feasibility for setting up two such sites at Shahdara and Bund Road was being prepared, he revealed. Rest areas for drivers and workshops for maintenance of vehicles would also constructed at these places, he added.