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Lahore Railway Station Looks Nice with Fountain.

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Originally Posted by Ahmad Rashid Ahmad

Blue Mosque replica: ‘Monument’ dedicated to Istanbul mayor

The Punjab government has built a 40-feet high replica of the dome of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque near Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in honour of Kadir Topbas, the mayor of the Turkish city, who is due to visit Lahore soon.

Would Like To see this. If anyone can fetch some Pics living near SKH.

[malpensa]

no one seems to care about keeping the airport clean.....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2as_b...eature=related

[aruz]

I didnt saw any blue mosque monument near SKMH. I was there last saturday... :S

[Dallas1]

Originally Posted by malpensa

no one seems to care about keeping the airport clean.....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2as_b...eature=related

lol reporter's accent...

[shakeelahmadch]

Originally Posted by Dallas1

lol reporter's accent...

That's pretty typical Lahori/Punjabi accent....nothing weird.

[smfarazm..]

Originally Posted by malpensa

no one seems to care about keeping the airport clean.....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2as_b...eature=related

wth,

[mwahmed]

Can anyone tell me the name of U/C flyover in Lahore or Punjab which will be fastest built flyover in the world ??? i have heard this news in TV 2 months ago.

[Strong Hearted]

Originally Posted by aruz

I didnt saw any blue mosque monument near SKMH. I was there last saturday... :S

Its not too close to skmh, drive few kilometers towards OPF and you will see it right at the junction from where new alternate road for valencia town starts.

[Strong Hearted]

Originally Posted by malpensa

no one seems to care about keeping the airport clean.....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2as_b...eature=related

The surroundings of Airport are so well maintained by PHA but the airport management is too dumb to take care of their premises.

[Ahmad Rashid Ahmad]

+1

[Ahmad Rashid Ahmad]

Waste management: Turkish companies to help clean Lahore

LWMC MD Waseem Ajmal says door-to-door collection of waste would also be introduced, and the company would buy space for landfill sites.

Turkish companies Al Bayark and OzPak will help transform the waste management system in Lahore over the next seven years, said Waseem Ajmal, managing director of the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC), at a seminar on Wednesday.

Speaking at a seminar titled ‘New solid waste management system and the responsibility of the citizen,’ Ajmal said that Lahore would be divided into two zones – west and east– and the two Turkish companies would each take responsibility to clean one zone.

Ajmal said that under the new system, sanitation workers would be provided uniforms, better safety equipment and higher wages. “Until now, there was no safety equipment for sanitation workers and the washing and sweeping equipment and containers used were over 20 years old,” he said.

Five thousand closed waste containers have been imported, he said, and called for volunteers from among the citizens to prevent them from being stolen once installed around the city. He said that door-to-door collection of waste would also be introduced, and the company would buy space for landfill sites.

Ajmal presented pictures of new vehicles imported for transporting waste.

“These are efficient and closed and there will be no littering during the commute,” he said. “The new vehicles imported for washing parks and pavements function through a high pressure technique.”

He said a helpline (1139) to lodge complaints about litter and for its speedy removal had been set up and the cell had dealt with 19,362 complaints already. “We have also signed a waste collection agreement with Waste Busters and a cement company,” he said. The two Turkish companies will start working in Lahore in two to three months, he said.

Biron Topan, managing director of Al Bayrak, urged citizens to cooperate with the government is bringing about a cleaner environment.

Behri Kamal, project coordinator for OzPak, said that the Turkish companies were not just involved in the project for profit, but as a token of appreciation for the Khilafat Movement of the early 20th Century. “We can not forget when the Muslims of South Asia helped Turkey. Our government will always extend its full cooperation, especially towards Lahore,” he said.

Zar Aslam, the founder of The Environment Protection Fund (TEPF), highlighted the work her group has done to clean Lahore.

“We have been engaging schoolchildren collect trash from the dirtiest places in Lahore. It’s a three-point initiative – clean, green and protect,” she said. “We clean the streets and markets and then with the children’s help we plant new trees.”

Aslam urged the participants to boycott use of plastic bags. “One plastic bag we dispose of remains out there for 400 years. If we care about our future generations, then we need to rethink our use of plastic bags,” she said.

Lesco Chairman Ahmad Rafay Alam praised the initiative as a positive step towards tackling pollution and sanitation concerns in Lahore.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that the new system would restore Lahore’s reputation as a city of flowers and gardens. He said that after Lahore, the waste management system would be extended to Gujranwala, Sialkot, Rawalpindi, Multan, Sargodha, Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur.

Khawaja Hassaan, the chairman of the LWMC, said that Lahoris should be embarrassed about what they had done to the city. He urged the citizens to join hands with the government to make the new system a success.

[Ahmad Rashid Ahmad]

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[hAmZ]

they have done the same amount of corruption as development if not more...ppp on the other hand, corruption is all it knows

[shakeelahmadch]

Originally Posted by hAmZ

they have done the same amount of corruption as development if not more...ppp on the other hand, corruption is all it knows

Correction, they have done same amount of corruption by awarding contracts to their close person - a systematic way of corruption which I'm fine with for now as long as infrastructure is built unlike PPP who are directly in money. PML-N's base and policies are directly from industrialists hence that corruption which actually exist in US or any other country you pick regarding the contracts awarding.

[khalid-don]

chill out lahore88. Corruption is a norm in Pakistan wheather its PPP or PML-N govt. If they don't start any development how else they would earn money. As Shakeel said its done in a systematic way. As an example in BRT project Punjab govt. bought each bus for Rs. 8.5 million although its actual cost was around Rs. 3.5 million

[khalid-don]

Originally Posted by Ahmad Rashid Ahmad

Aur sun lo

Bus rapid transit system ‘faulty, waste of money’

The launching of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in the city, which aims to ease traffic congestion, will serve no good, as it is “full of fundamental and technical flaws” and is a “moneymaking exercise”.

Town planning experts and engineers, talking to Daily Times, have pointed out a number of anomalies and technical flaws in the execution of the BRTS project on Ferozepur Road, paving the way for wastage and misappropriation of funds.

“The BRTS project is utter nonsense as no feasibility and design study was conducted before launching the project. Another key point before executing the project is the environment impact assessment. In the case of BRTS project, no such study was carried out and approved by the Environment Protection Department,” transport planner Aqeel Younas told Daily Times.

“The government had allocated around Rs 60 to 70 million for the feasibility study of the project and it had to be carried out by a Turkish company. Since there is no feasibility study, where are the funds?” he questioned.

He said that the government gave contracts to a Turkish company for the feasibility study and a Chinese company for buses through sole ‘source contracts’ and no other companies were considered for it, which was contrary to the rules and regulations.

A source told Daily Times that the government had planned to purchase 100 buses from China for the project, costing Rs 8.5 million each, while the actual price of a bus was Rs 3.3 to 3.5 million.

“It is ironic that ordinary buses are being purchased for the project, while for the BRTS, specially designed articulated buses are required, keeping in view the convenience of passengers,” he said.

The proposed plan for the BRTS is divided into three sections; Ferozepur Road Corridor (Green Line), Multan Road (Orange line) and the Canal Road. The initial execution of the BRTS includes the first 10 kilometres, which is from Gajju Matta to Kalma Chowk.

The Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency’s (TEPA) BRTS Project Director Mazhar Hussain Khan told Daily Times that in the first phase, the BRTS from Gajju Matta to Kalma Chowk would be completed with a cost of Rs 1.5 billion in four months, while the BRTS from Kalma Chowk to Shahdara would be executed by end of this year.

Consultant Aqeel Younas pointed out that before launching the project, neither the terminal locations had been defined, nor land had been acquired for them.

“One wonders if the design of the Kalma Chowk underpass makes provision for a bus rapid transit line because, if not, the money spent on the feasibility of that project will be wasted,” said Advocate Rafay Alam, vice president of the Pakistan Environmental Lawyers.

It has been learnt that the mass transit system was part of the ‘Integrated Master Plan for Lahore’ and not the BRTS project.

Talking to Daily Times, transport consultant Engineer Mazhar Iqbal called the bus rapid transit project “an exercise to make money through procurement and construction”, saying that the government was going ahead with an infeasible transport system, while overlooking the more feasible and convenient plan.

“In 1992, a transport plan was made to launch a mass transit system, running from Model Town to Bhaati Gate. The plan was updated in 1994 on the recommendations of the World Bank, which suggested that the system should be extended to Shahdara to facilitate more populated areas. In 2005, the plan was updated again, but yet to be executed, wasting around Rs 1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money,” he said.

Town planners are concerned that the BRTS would damage the Ferozepur Road, which was constructed with billions of rupees.

“The government has proposed two-side plate forms for the BRTS that will take four lanes on station locations. The side-lane traffic has been totally ignored, which will create bottlenecks,” said Aqeel Younas.

Talking to Daily Times, urban development expert Imrana Tiwana said that it was difficult to run a non-stop transport in a congested and narrow space. “A BRTS is set up where there is infrastructure. It is not feasible in congested areas, like Ferozepur Road,” she said.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-3-2012_pg13_1

[khalid-don]

check the previous post.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=5440

[shakeelahmadch]

Originally Posted by khalid-don

check the previous post.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=5440

The news post might not be reliable (just words of mouth from some journalist) - and now a days 99% journalist are funded ! you really need to glean the information out.

But having said that, it's true corruption is done but this is karobari style of corruption - keep everyone around including your peasants/workers in factories happy as well. This is done everywhere in world. Last time I was working on a project in Philly and you had to pay many special groups to lobby for your projects (another way of corruption but legal) -