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Liberating “Liberty Chowk” from Choker-blocks

Liberty of driving through the “Liberty Chowk” is going to be restored soon.

“They are taking away our Liberty Round About!!!” read one of my friend’s Facebook status and in the next 15 odd minutes, there were around 20 comments by others cursing and criticizing the government for messing up their dream destination somehow.

Everyone was all of a sudden looking to save a fountain (that too not made by the Mughals) and ignore the torture and choker-blocks around that fountain every single day.

There was no mention of the hours of traffic mess that occurs at this roundabout every day. Those who travel for work to and from the Gulberg main boulevard area, the Liberty Market and the adjoining area, know the mental torture they go through every day.

To sort this situation, it has been decided that an traffic engineering solution will be implemented at the Liberty Roundabout. Currently three proposals are under consideration regarding this project. In all three project plans one thing is common, which is an underpass right where the Roundabout is, parallel to the man boulevard.

First Proposal

LPlan1

This plan is most likely going to be implemented.

  • The Underpass is one-way, from Main Boulevard towards Kalma Chowk.
  • The traffic flow from Main Boulevard would take the underpass towards the center-point and the Kalma Chowk where they will have an option to either continue their commuting through the Kalma Underpass towards the canal or exit before that, next to Center Point,
  • The traffic coming from Kalma Chowk and going towards Liberty Market flows over the underpass towards the right.
  • The traffic coming from Qazzafi Stadium would flow towards Man boulevard and in case one would want to g towards liberty market, they would need to the u-turn between the Liberty Chowk and Pace, which is not more than 1-2 minutes drive

Second Proposal

LPlan2

The second proposal was pretty similar to the first on, with the major difference being the availability of a U-Turn for those before the Liberty Chowk.

Third Proposal

LPlan3

  • The Third Plan proposed a two-way underpass for traffic coming from Kalma Chowk and from Main Boulevard.
  • This model plan was looking to maintain the Liberty Round about but the engineering design and calculations showed that the traffic flux distribution would not work.
  • With this plan and there would be too much load on the Center-Point intersection with traffic coming from Cavalry Ground, Kalma Chowk Underpass and the exit points of Liberty Underpass.