Jinnah National Highway Grid - JNHG

JNHG Jinnah National Highway Grid

(Proposed Top level highway grid in Pakistan)

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I once, about 5 to 10 years ago, thought why not Pakistan have a number of almost equidistant highways running from it's top to bottom almost parallel to each other. And another number of almost equidistant highways running from it's left to right almost parallel to each other and also connecting top-to-bottom highways where they meet

And at the same time I also thought that all these top-to-bottom highways will end at bottom near some sea-port. Where there is already a sea-port it is OK but where required a new sea-port, as good looking as we see in english movies, will be made.

And I continued to think that economic development will be spread around these highways as per requirement of the area and it's people . These development will not be made directly beside highways but on some distance from highways. This way highways will remain away from rush of developed areas.

And I also thought that there will be two types of highways running side by side. One for heavy traffic and another for light traffic, both multi-lane. Maximum number of lanes for either type of highway were not decided. But there will be separate road for going and coming traffic, with island between them, was decided. One more idea was to make light traffic highway on pattern of 'autobahn' of Germany with no upper speed limit.

As far as it's utilization fees was concerned I made two ideas:

●-(First idea was to make these highways totally utilization fees free.)

●-(Second idea was to charge utilization fees from it's users based on each vehicle's weight and length of highway utilized.)

Other then above options tokens of Rs100, Rs200, Rs500, Rs1000 will be made available to highway users so that they can optionally purchase them in any number in the name of maintenance of highways.

Another parallel idea was to have railway lines running parallel to both type of these top-to-bottom and left-to-right highways.

So any one using these networks of highways and trains can move from anywhere to anywhere using connecting trains/buses etc. Therefore increasing economic and social activity nation wide.

You can see in the following map a rough idea of that 'network of highway' proposed/planed/designed by me (Khursheed Fateh).

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From where I got these ideas?

Above idea is based on highway grid of a far-flung country, which is other-wise very near to our heart, where a number of highways move horizontally and vertically throughout the country. I came to know about that highway system while watching some travel videos and then after searching about highways in those videos and thinking and re-thinking I made my above Ideas.

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Big city Traffic easing method - 2016

Big city Traffic easing method

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A few years ago a lot of over pases, under pases and signal free corridors were made on mass scale in Karachi/Sindh/Pakistan (mostly during Gen. Musharef rule) to make traffic flow smooth and free of a lot of brakes. While thinking about these roads and re-searching on net about solutions for the same problem I got a new idea

Idea was to make main roads of Karachi/Sindh/Pakistan multistory from start to end with both level of roads getting connected together on each/every Intersection. Intersection on each level was to be made mostly of 'cloverleaf intersection' or some variation of 'whirlpool intersection'. Because they are only 2 story high and provide Strait, Left and Right turns. 'Cloverleaf intersection' also provide U turn and with small effort 'whirlpool intersection' can also provide U turn easily. Both levels were to be connected together by connecting intersections on both levels.

But that is not all. I went ahead with my thinking and planning and made another new idea. And this time idea was to design roads of big cities like Karachi/Sindh/Pakistan on pattern of graph paper. Where dark lines represent main roads. This method provides main roads to each part of city evenly. And any one can move from one part of city to another part of city using any of so many possibilities present. Thus reducing chance of choking any part of road-system. Another benefit of this design of road-system is that bus routs can be made in a lot of ways to provide even opportunities to every part of city.

To further ease traffic on this road-system a rule can be made according to which buses will always move on 1st level of road-system. Taxis and rickshaws will move on 1st level of road-system only for searching-for, picking and delivering of passengers, otherwise they will move on 2nd level of road-system. Personal vehicles like cars, motorcycles will move on 2nd level except on start and stop points. People on shopping/window-shopping mission will use 1st level at start and end point and 2nd level in between of their journey. People on tourism mission will use any level. Plus any other vehicle doing short distance travel will use 1st level and long distance travel will use 2nd level. This is only beginning version of 'traffic easing rule'. Final version will be made after analyzing actual traffic for some years and using Computer for generating possible solutions, based on collected information, for further easing traffic on road-system.

I will add diagram of what I said/wrote above some time else here.

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Lane Changer at International borders

Lane Changer at International borders

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Over some years in past in some traveling videos I saw a situation in which traffic was moving towards each other on same lane of same road while entering or leaving Pakistan. May be the reason behind this situation is that out of 4 neighboring countries of Pakistan, in 3 countries traffic moves on right hand side of road while in Pakistan traffic moves on left hand side of the road. In remaining 1 neighboring country traffic also moves on left hand side of the road.

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So after searching and re-searching on above described problem/topic I found/reached-on, a solution which is simple, affordable and easy to implement and maintain.

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So I started making road drawings based on solutions I short listed. I made many versions one after another but kept rejecting them because of their complexity. After many tries I reached on solution as shown in the following drawings. I think it is simple not only to make and maintain but also for using. This solution does not need any bridges therefore it is also economical and affordable for countries like ours.

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Drawings are self descriptive so I am not describing it any further here in text. But maybe in future I come back here and add explanations here.

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I think this solution to above described problem can be used anywhere in the world where it's requirement occurs.

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And if someone is thinking what about remaining 1 country then following type of arrangement can be made for that country. This way all international border-crossings get same type of 'look and feel'.

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Not only these arrangements are useful for keeping traffic at international border it's own lane but they also provide very good security at international border crossings.

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[Update: 2019May06Mon] Today I removed both old images and added improved images in their place.

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If there are any mistakes then I will surely remove them whenever found.

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