Re: Increase in car manufacturing, sale in Pakistan.
Yes. It is helping, and will indeed improve lives of the commuters when fully opened.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\02\12\story_12-2-2008_pg7_50
President opens part of Lyari Expressway
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
** Says project will improve lives of Lyari bank dwellers *
** Opens Karachi Tools, Dyes and Moulds Centre *
KARACHI: President Pervez Musharraf inaugurated the southbound carriageway of the Rs 13 billion Lyari Expressway project at Governor’s House on Monday.
Addressing the ceremony, the president said the expressway project would reduce the travel time from Karachi Port to the Super Highway and provide better housing facilities to Lyari embankment dwellers, who were “living in pathetic conditions”.
He recalled looking at people living on the banks of Lyari River on his way to St Patrick’s School when he was a student. “They were living in pathetic conditions with their shanties erected along the sewage water on either side of Lyari River and used to lose lives in floods.”
“I am happy that these people have been shifted to a decent and clean residential areas in three planned townships where all the basic amenities including schools, playgrounds, parks and other facilities are available,” he said.
He congratulated former Communications minister Shamim Siddiqui, the National Highway Authority (NHA) and the Frontier Works Organisation on the Northern Bypass and Lyari Expressway projects, but asked the NHA to accelerate work on the northbound carriageway of the Lyari Expressway project. The Sindh governor told the president that encroachments had been removed from two of the three locations on the carriageway route.
Tools, Dies and Moulds Centre: Inaugurating the Rs 515 million Karachi Tools, Dyes and Moulds Centre (KTDMC) at Governor’s House, President Musharraf said Pakistan needed well-trained engineers and skilled manpower to economic development to continue.
He said nine new universities would be set up in Pakistan with foreign collaboration. The universities would have their own technology parks, he added.
Also on Friday, President Pervez Musharraf inaugurated a water desalination and power generation project at the Defence Housing Authority (DHA).
The project, a join venture of the DHA and a Singapore-based company, can produce 90MW of power and three million gallons of water a day. The power is being fed into the Karachi Electric Supply Company distribution network and the water is being used in the DHA.