Blue Area traders demand underpass

Islamabad: Traders of Blue Area, capital’s main commercial hub, have demanded the construction of an underpass at an appropriate place on Jinnah Avenue to facilitate customers, coming F sectors who find no approach due to the Metro-Bus route.
Highlighting businessmen’s concerns, Blue Area Traders Association Vice Chairman Muhammad Ashraf on Monday told APP that their businesses had suffered as shoppers from F-6, F-7, F-8, F-10 and adjoining sectors had been cut off from the main commercial centre due to the three-kilometre Metro-Bus route, passing along the Blue Area.
Some shopkeepers, he added, had already packed up their business due to persistent loss.
He urged the government and Metro-Bus project managers to do necessary alteration in the route and construct an underpass. This, he said, would facilitate the shoppers.
He also demanded the government to give three-year tax exemption to traders, whose business had been affected due to the Metro-Bus project.