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Faizabad Interchange
فیض آباد ادلا بدلی
Faizabad Interchange; فیض آباد ادلا بدلی
	View of Faizabad Interchange bypass bridge from Islamabad Expressway
Location
	Islamabad and Rawalpindi
Coordinates	33°39′52″N 73°5′13″E / 33.66444°N 73.08694°E
Roads at; junction	Murree Road; Islamabad Highway
Construction
Type	Cloverleaf interchange
Opened	January 1998; 26 years ago

Faizabad Interchange (Urdu: فیض آباد ادلا بدلی) is a cloverleaf interchange which serves as a junction between Islamabad Highway and Murree Road in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Constructed by NESPAK at a cost of Rs 130 million (£745,000),^[1] the interchange was completed in January 1998,^[2] making it the first modern cloverleaf interchange in Pakistan.^[3] Over 100,000 vehicles use this interchange daily and serves a major entry and exit point to Islamabad and Rawalpindi.^[4] The interchange is only a few cloverleaf interchanges in the world where three roads have been joined rather than two, linking the Islamabad Expressway, Murree Road, and the IJP Road.

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^ List of Major Projects - NESPAK (PDF).
^ "Traffic congestion at Faizabad irks commuters". The Nation. 21 January 2019. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
^ NESPAK. "Faizabad Interchange". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10.
^ "After crackdown on Faizabad dharna: Army called out in Islamabad". The News International. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 2022-07-16.

[1] List of Major Projects - NESPAK (PDF).

[2] "Traffic congestion at Faizabad irks commuters". The Nation. 21 January 2019. Retrieved 2022-07-16.

[3] NESPAK. "Faizabad Interchange". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10.

[4] "After crackdown on Faizabad dharna: Army called out in Islamabad". The News International. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 2022-07-16.

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