RAWALPINDI – Dysfunctional streetlights at Double Road have led to rise in road accidents.
Owing to lack of coordination between IESCO and TMA, the streetlights are not working since the last four years. This road is housed by towering cultural, cuisine and sports complexes including Food street, Nawaz Sharif park, Arts Council and Cricket stadium where national and international level matches are played .  
This is all due to lack of proper coordination as IESCO had installed high transmission lines without consultation of TMA rendering 72 street lights and poles redundant.
IESCO has set up a grid station herein. The presence of high-tension lines and high poles can lead to any fatal road accident. TMA was not given any opportunity to change the already installed poles and streetlights or to lower their height.
The prevailing situation depicts a gloomy picture, as the streetlights are no more workable due to these high transmission lines.
On the other hand Rawal town administration is demonstrating lack of interest in taking measures to put the clusters of these lights to work.
The citizens demanded immediate steps for making street lights functional to avert any big road accident.
INP adds: Sixth Road Flyover (Shahbaz Sharif Flyover) would be opened for all kinds of traffic on December 25.
According to sources, the flyover project would be completed with the cost of Rs1042 million. Member of the National Assembly, Muhammad Hanif Abbasi said this while briefing the media about the project the other day. He also announced that NLC has been directed to prepare feasibility report of a steal bridge to resolve the traffic problem from Committee Chowk to Naaz Cinema.
The MNA also said that if the people elected him in the upcoming elections, then Nullah Leh Expressway, Ring Road and other such projects would be his priority.
He said that project of Rs16 billion were being completed in his constituency, adding the projects included Chandni Chowk Flyover, Sixth Road Flyover, Institute of Cardiology and Institute of Urology.
On the occasion, contractor of the project, Muhammad Bashir briefed that 12 out of total 14 pillars have been completed, while 84 out of total 144 concrete guarders have also bee completed. He further said that the project was to be completed in 120 days; 50 percent work has been completed and the flyover would be opened for traffic till December 25.
Meanwhile, installation of LED lights on all the flyovers of Rawalpindi, among other cities of the province, has been approved.
According to sources, the Punjab government has approved the project and the kind of lights used on Metro Bus Service Lahore would be used in the project.
These lights would also be installed on Chandni Chowk Flyover. Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the project on March 10 this year but old lights were installed then. Now, with the approval of the new light, the old lights would be replaced by new lights.