Motor ways of Pakistan:
Pakistan's motorways are part of Pakistan's national trade carridor project,which aims to link Pakistan's three Arabian Arabian Sea ports Karachi port port qasim and gwadar port to the rest of the country and further north with Afghanistan central Asia and China.
The Motorways of Pakistan are a network of high speed limited access or controlled access highways in Pakistan's which are owned maintained and operated federally by Pakistan's national highway authority.
Total length:As of December 2011 operational motorways in Pakistan's had a combined length of 679.5 km with another 278 km construction. Another 1,200 km of motorways and expressways are planned. Over the next 10 years 2022.
Silent features of motorways:
Lanes. Either 6 lanes with all 4 lanes motorways up gradable to 6 lanes as traffic on them increases.
Speed limit. 100 km/h for heavy transport vehicles and 120 km/h for light transport vehicles.
Separation limit. Pakistan's motorways have a UN broken central raised concrete median and grade separated junctions.
Access. Access to Pakistan motorways is restricted to fast moving vehicle only, including high performance heavy bikes. Pedestrian, bicycle, low performance motorcycle, animal driven carriages and other slow moving vehicle are not permitted on the motorways.
Fence covering. The motorways are fenced on either side for safety and prevention of unauthorized access by pedestrians, animals and slow moving vehicles.
Entry. There are a no of interchange points are the only points from where vehicles can enter or exit the. Motorway. These controlled interchange points are the only points from the where vehicle can enter exit the motorway.
Numbering. All motorway in Pakistan are pre fixed with the letter M for motorway followed by the unique numerical designations of the specific motorways..
The M-1 motorway Peshawar- Islamabad and the M-2 motorways Islamabad- Lahore each include two emergency runway section of 9,000 ft,length each.
Import motorways:
M-1 Islamabad Peshawar motorway. 135km long.
M-2 Lahore Islamabad motorway. 333km long.
The first motorway to be built in South Asia.
M-3 pindi battian Faisalabad. 54 km long.
M-9 super high way not yet in status. 138 km.long.
M-10 Karachi northern bypass. 57km long
The M-10 is the second shortest motorways in Pakistan's the shortest being M-3
The M-10 is actually a bypass diverging outbound traffic away from the Karachi and is the only by pass in Pakistan given the status of a motor way.
M-10 is Pakistan longest bypaas.
International Road Movement passengers:
Quetta Zahidan, Quetta mashad, gwadar zahidan. Iran.
Peshawar jalabad, Peshawar Kabul. Afghanistan.
Lahore Delhi muzaffarabad Srinagar. India...!!!!
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