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For at least two decades, Hijri Road has been a nuisance for the people who live in Gulshan Town’s Metroville Colony.
So when UC 6 chairman Nasir Ashfaq managed to get the Karachi Development Authority to fix the inner neighbourhood service lane, they insisted on paver blocks this time. Three years later, sewerage still overflows from time to time, but at least by the time they clean it up there is still a road underneath the muck.
“When we installed pavers, we’ve seen that the lifespan of the road increases,” said the UC chairman. “The problem hasn’t resurfaced.”
Neighbourhood after neighbourhood is switching to the newer technology. End of last year, Mayor Murtaza Wahab even announced a Rs281 million push to redo roads in District Central alone.
