Swat Expressway

Swat Expressway
سوات بزرگراه‬
Route information
Maintained by Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority
Length 81 km[1] (50 mi)
Existed Under Construction – 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) six-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 by the end of 2017. With completion of the expressway, travel time from Nowshera to Chakdara will be reduced from three hours to one hour. The Nowshera-Swat Expressway is being constructed by the frontier works organizations and will cost ₨36 billion (US$340 million).[3][4] Asian Development Bank and China has provided the principal technical and financial assistance for the project to the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while Saudi Arabia pledged ₨3.4 billion (US$32 million).[5][6]

The Swat Expressway should not be confused with the E90 Expressway (Besham–Khwazakhela Expressway) proposed by the National Highway Authority, which also terminates in Swat.


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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