Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will inaugurate Sangla Hill Interchange on Pindi Bhattian-Faisalabad Motorway Section of M-4 on Friday (tomorrow).
The newly built interchange will link up the adjoining areas of Sangla Hill to the National Highway and Motorway Network thus paving the way for agricultural and industrial development.
This 3.7 km long interchange is completed at a cost of more than Rs. 299.2 million with service road of 440 meters. 2xToll plazas and control building are also built there. Sangla Hill Interchange (M-4) will facilitate traffic to Lahore, Islamabad, Sargodha, Chiniot, Chak Jhumra, Faisalabad and Jhang. Likewise, traffic from Lahore-Sheikhpura and Faisalabad road will have access to the motorway. Moreover, commercial traffic of under construction industrial zone at Faisalabad will also use this interchange.
Presently, National Highway Authority, Ministry of Communications is working on a number of projects throughout the country and Western Route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is being undertaken on priority. The corridor is to give Pakistan a central position in regional trade activity in the coming years.