Moving along: OLMT to get ramps for a differently-abled
LAHORE: Punjab supervision has motionless to build ramps on all footpaths along a track of a Lahore Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) in a bid to give infirm persons in a city an equal event to get advantages from a mega project.
OLMT Steering Committee Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassaan, during a assembly on Wednesday, destined Lahore Development Authority (LDA), polite contractors and endangered departments to make a metro sight plan suitable for persons with special needs.
The OLMT central said, “right now, a construction of this multibillion dollar plan is underneath approach and city developers are in a routine of remodelling roads along a metro sight route. It will be a good thought if ramps are built with footpaths for adults with special needs”.
“It will have no additional financial weight on a open pool and a vital apportionment of a city will turn disabled-friendly,” he explained while giving a brief on a city’s arriving highway and infrastructure projects. According to a OLMT official, these would renovate Lahore into a initial disabled-friendly city of a country.
The participants of a assembly learnt that pre-forms had been alien for pre-casting petrify structures for package-II of a plan (from Chaburji to Ali Town).
It was disclosed in a assembly that altogether 61% of a belligerent polite works had already been completed, including 75% works finished on package-I (from Dera Gujjran to Chaburji), 45.25% on package-II, 63.1% on package-III (depot) and 59.5% on package-IV (stabling yard).
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 9th, 2017.
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