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Karachi’s transport mafia
Karachi’s transport mafia has repeatedly sabotaged the circular railroad project in the city for a long time.
KARACHI: Karachi’s transport mafia has repeatedly sabotaged the circular railroad project in the city for a long time. Many governments have tried to re-initiate the project but things never move forward because the transport lobby manages to get its way each time.
Details of meetings on the matter are never disclosed and Karachiites are largely in the dark over the future of this much-needed project that would not just provide relief to commuters but would also lessen traffic on the roads. The red tape surrounding this project must be eliminated and it must be initiated in a transparent manner without the interference of the corrupt and exploitative transport mafia.
Nehal Alvi
Published in The Express Tribune, May 31st, 2012.
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I fully endorsed Nehal Alvi’s opinion about Karachi’s transport mafia published on 31st May.
In addition I would like to put in that such mafia was also involved in the failure of green buses operation. Whenever big buses come on roads mini bus and coach mafia creates obstacles and use wrong tactics to strengthen their monopoly on Karachi’s public transport. One must remember the news items that revealed the incidents that mini bus drivers tried to hit city government’s buses. Similarly another news in this chapter published today in an Urdu newspaper that there are around two hundred thousand auto rickshaws on the streets of Karachi and most of them are running without registration. Once Governor Sindh ordered to replace two stroke auto rickshaws with CNG rickshaws but all the noisy and smoky rickshaws had been parked on the road demonstrating protest against the will of the government.
If government believes on the notion that if there is will there is a way then public transport problem in Karachi may be solved.
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