Swat Expressway

Swat Expressway
سوات بزرگراه
Route information
Maintained by Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority
Length: 81 km[1] (50 mi)
Existed: 2015 – present
Major junctions
North end: Chakdara, Lower Dir District
South end: Nowshera
Highway system
Roads in Pakistan

The Swat Expressway (Urdu: سوات بزرگراه‎) or Nowshera–Swat Expressway (Urdu: نوشہرہ–سوات بزرگراه‎) is an 81-kilometre-long (50 mi) four-lane under-construction expressway in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

The expressway stretches from Nowshera to Chakdara in Lower Dir District, passing through Swabi, Mardan, and Malakand Districts.[2] The project was inaugurated in August 2016 and is expected to be completed in 15 months. With completion of this project, the travel time from Nowshera to Chakdara (Swat) via Motorway, will reduce from three hours to one hour. The Nowshera-Swat Expressway is being built by the Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority and will cost Rs 136 billion.[3][4] Asian Development Bank and China will provide the principal technical and financial assistance for this project to the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while Saudi Arabia has pledged Rs.3.4 billion of the required Rs.38 billion for the project.[5][6]

This is not to be confused with the E90 Expressway (Besham–Khwazakhela Expressway) also terminating in Swat, which has been proposed by the National Highway Authority.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ http://nha.gov.pk/wp-content/themes/nha/images/map-full.jpg
  2. ↑ Donors keen in mega Swat Expressway: CM KPK Khattak
  3. ↑ Infrastructure: CM sanctions release of Rs2.3b for Swat Express Way
  4. ↑ Rs16bn 81-kilometer Swat Expressway
  5. ↑ ADB team assures CM of extending technical, financial support to mega projects in KP
  6. ↑ "Saudi Arabia pledges Rs3.4 billion for construction of Swat Expressway - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2017-01-25. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
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