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Shahrah-e-Faisal is one of Karachi's busiest roads, and is the site of frequent traffic jams. [26] The Road Traffic Injury and Prevention Centre of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre showed that at least one person dies, and an average of 83 people are wounded, every day on Karachi roads. Shahrah-e-Faisal is considered to be the deadliest road.
Traffic collisions in Pakistan are among the highest in the world, with thousands of lives lost and many severely injured each year. [2] In 2021 alone, 10,379 road accidents resulted in some 5,608 fatalities. [ 3 ]
The M-9 motorway or the Karachi–Hyderabad motorway (Urdu: کراچی–حیدرآباد موٹروے) is a north–south motorway in the Sindh province of Pakistan, connecting Karachi to Hyderabad. [1] The six-lane road is 136 kilometres long, [2] [3] and caters to the commercial traffic originating from the Karachi Port and Port Qasim. Daily ...
Lyari Expressway is a highway along the Lyari River in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan connecting the Port of Karachi with M9 Motorway. Lyari Expressway 's North bound section is recently opened for traffic while the South bound corridor was completed and inaugurated for traffic in 2008. [ 25 ]
Karachi Ring Road is an infrastructure project in Karachi, Pakistan. The project aims to reduce traffic congestion on major arteries and create alternatives near the Port of Karachi and central business district. [1] The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has expressed interest in financing the project. [2]
The expressway would serve as the Southern alternative route for carrying traffic of the port and industrial areas to main highways. [9] It will not reduce traffic on the existing Shahrah-e-Faisal since the expected traffic flow will be mostly of high-income car passengers, whereas the traffic on Sharae Faisal will be redistributed on all the other public transport projects happening in the city
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, there was a large black coloured airship hangar at the site of Karachi Airport, constructed for the British HMA R101, at the time, the largest aircraft ever built. [citation needed] Only three hangars were ever built in the world to dock and hangar Britain's fleet of passenger airships.
The N-5 is the longest national highway in Pakistan and serves as an important north–south road artery, starting from Karachi and extending through Hyderabad, Moro and Sukkur in Sindh before crossing into Punjab province where it passes through Multan, Sahiwal, Lahore, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Lalamusa, Kharian, Jhelum and Rawalpindi.