M-5 -- Multan - Sukkur Motorway

[ghazi52]

Goth Machi in (M5 392km) project, a structure worth 1.5 billion Rs is provided at KM 523 to protect Main Gas Pipe Line.

 

[ghazi52]

Ubaro Canal Bridge Update August 2018.

KM 478, Section-2, Sindh.

 

[dil_dil]

Ubaro Canal Bridge Update August 2018.

KM 478, Section-2, Sindh.

Surprised at greenery considering its Multan-Sukkur section. Need more trees though. Hakla-Islamabad motorway looks like it goes through desert.

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

Great work @ghazi52 as usual. Just wondering, from where the hell you get all these pictures from.

 

[ghazi52]

Azampur Service Area - Motorway M5

 

[ghazi52]

Updates 27/08/2018.

Longest Satluj River Bridge in section 6 is completed today in PKM (M5 392km) Project.

 

[ghazi52]

Updates 5/9/2018.

Ubaouro Bridge, smallest angle skew Bridge girders in M5 (K478) launched successfully. A Special bridge girder erection machine was imported from China for the 23 degrees girders instillation.

 

[Chishty4]

JANG NEWS PAPER 17-09-18​

 

[ghazi52]

M5 project ( 392 km from sukkur to multan)

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[ghazi52]

Uch Sharif Service Area - Motorway M5

 

[ghazi52]

Multan – The 392-kilometer Sukkur-Multan section of Peshawar-Karachi Motorway is likely to be opened for traffic by May next year, two months ahead of the given schedule of August 04, 2019, General Manager of the project, Arbab Ali said. ‘At present 69 percent of total work has been completed, out of which 392 kilometer roadbed and culvert passage, and other structures are about to be competed (99%). Up to now, all the bridges are near completion, and asphalt pavement works are advancing at full speed, and the building construction and ancillary works also being implemented actively,’ he said while talking to a group of media in Multan.

He said this section was part of the mega China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. He informed that on May 26 this year, a 33 km section (Multan-Shujabad) in the north end of the project was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, however it could not be opened to traffic due to incomplete work of the section. ‘This section will be opened to traffic by March next year’. Pakistan’s PKM project starts from Karachi via Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan, Islamabad, Lahore and other cities ends in Peshawar with a total length of 1,152 kilometers.

Sukkur-Multan has a design speed of 120 km per hour, and it is a two-way six-lane road with a contractual value of USD 2.889 billion (excluding $180 million tax exemption). The Export-Import Bank of China provides loan support, and China State Construction Company Limited (CSCEC) is responsible for construction on Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) basis. With a contract period of 36 months (including design period of four months), the project officially started on August 5, 2016.

Meanwhile CEO of CSEC Mr Zong informed that majority of the investment by China was based on soft loan (with a markup rate of only 2.2%) while the rest was based on commercial loans. He said that in this project, a total of 101 bridges, 1503 structures, 11 interchanges, six service areas, five rest areas, and 22 toll plazas will be constructed. ‘The whole project is divided into seven sections, each of which is about 54-59 kilometers long and all seven sections are constructed simultaneously,’.

 

[ghazi52]

Rest Area emerges near Guddu....

 

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[Arsalan]

This sections should have been planned with a green belt in center with drip irrigation. That part of the country will get boiling hot in summers and will be difficult and a bit dangerous to travel on. Some trees would have been good for environment as well as have kept the temperatures a bit down. I hope there is heavy plantation on sides now. That wont be much effective but will still be something. I hope the billion tree tsunami planners (whoever the director is or the concerned ministry ) think of this and make sure that many of those plants are planted along these roads.

 

[VCheng]

This sections should have been planned with a green belt in center with drip irrigation. That part of the country will get boiling hot in summers and will be difficult and a bit dangerous to travel on. Some trees would have been good for environment as well as have kept the temperatures a bit down. I hope there is heavy plantation on sides now. That wont be much effective but will still be something. I hope the billion tree tsunami planners (whoever the director is or the concerned ministry ) think of this and make sure that many of those plants are planted along these roads.

Good idea, but along motorways, due to the high speeds, trees represent a hazard, unless separated by a wide grass belt, guard rails and fencing, all of which add considerably to maintenance costs.