Authorities need to focus on not just completing Green Line Bus Service but also expanding its network
KARACHI: Karachi is the biggest city of Pakistan, with an area of 3.780 square kilomotres and a population of 14.91 million. But the metropolitan city still lacks a proper mass transit system and its citizens are forced to depend upon the centuries-old transport system comprising overcrowded buses and noise-making rickshaws.
Metro bus system is a solution that is running with success in lots of cities the world over, including the neighbouring India. While the bus service had been introduced in London way back in 1863, we in Pakistan are still unable to provide it in our biggest city, Karachi, even in the 21st century.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif did provide one in Lahore, but the one he introduced in Karachi, called the Green Line Metro Bus Service — is still in doldrums.
The authorities in Karachi need to focus on not just completing the Green Line Bus Service, but also expanding its network in the next phases.
Karachi’s population is growing a very fast pace, and the number of vehicles on the streets and roads of the city are also increasing by the day. It, is therefore, the need of the hour to come up with a proper mass transit system, of which the under-construction Green Line Bus Service is just a part.
Noorullah Bhatti
Published in The Express Tribune, March 10th, 2019.
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