Pedestrians, bicycles, low-performance motorcycles, animal-driven carriages, and other slow-moving vehicles are not permitted.

[clarification needed] Changes in government caused delays and changes in the project and the total cost estimates shot up due to increased land acquisition, improvement of existing roads used in the project, shifting of utility installations, protecting commercial and residential areas and improvements to junctions.

Explanations for the overrun included delays from lack of professional capabilities, loose checks and balances and the absence of third-party oversight.

In 1991, the Japan International Cooperation Agency proposed a road-loop in the city and the World Bank prepared a feasibility report on a 60 km ring road.

The Punjab Communication & Works Department Project Management Unit awarded the “Lahore Ring Road Southern Loop Feasibility Study and Selection of Route” to NESPAK in December 2007.

Construction on the final, 8 km (5.0 mi) loop of the orbital highway, SL-III, that begins from Adda Plot near Raiwind to Maraka on GT Road was delayed since 2016 due to litigation by Bahria Town Lahore.

The stay order was later vacated and the society purchased back 600 plots and 300 houses that lay in the Ring Road's path.

[1] Finally, in the 3rd quarter of 2023 the construction work started at multiple spots & directions for time saving which is in progress on 24 x 7 basis.

The Lahore Ring Road Authority is an autonomous body under the Communications and Works Department, Government of Punjab.