KARACHI: Administrator Murtaza Wahab directed subordinates to remove debris and garbage from MA Jinnah Road in view of Muharram-ul-Haram.

“Development work of Green Line and Red Line should be expedited. MA Jinnah Road must be improved for traffic and pedestrians before Ashura,” Administrator made these decisions in a meeting with delegation of Sindh Infrastructure Development Company Limited (SIDCL) here.

Municipal Commissioner Syed Afzal Zaidi, Manager Technical Imtiaz Ali, Shakoor Pathan and other officers also participated.

Murtaza was briefed regarding ongoing development works on Sher Shah Suri Road and MA Jinnah Road by SIDCL. He was told that repair work of service road of Sher Shah Suri Road was underway. He was informed that some more work needed to be done on service road, footpaths and efforts were being made to complete it.

Administrator said that Green and Red Line Bus Services would be extended to Jama Cloth Market and Tower respectively.

“There will not be a separate corridor from Jama Cloth to Tower due to lack of space on MA Jinnah Road and bus will run alongside other vehicles.

Around 40,000 citizens are getting travel facility from Green Line every day,” he said. After extension of Green Line, target of providing travel facility to about 100,000 passengers per day would be achieved.

He said that Green Line and Red Line were major mass transit projects whose early completion will meet travel needs of citizens to a great extent. He said that other transport projects will connect more areas of city to mass transit system.

He said that sewerage and water lines had been replaced on MA Jinnah Road from Numaish to Municipal Park. He directed to take all possible steps to provide facilities to citizens, adding that improvement of infrastructure needed to be given special attention.