Metro train hauls 100m commuters since 2020

Media briefing organized to mark 10 years of CPEC

LAHORE:

The Lahore Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) achieves a milestone of transporting 100 million commuters with 99.99% time-and-service efficiency since beginning commercial operations in October 2020.

This was stated by the OLMT General Manager, Omar Chishti, while briefing a group of journalists who visited the Metro Train Headquarters in the provincial capital on Wednesday.

The media briefing was organised by the Consulate-General of China in Lahore in collaboration with the Institute of International Relations and Media Research (IIRMR) to mark the 10-year celebrations of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative.

Chishti told the media that the metro train had completed three years of its operation successfully.

He said that it was a remarkable project under CPEC which had been completed at almost one-third of the cost quoted by the European companies.

The government was giving each passenger a subsidy of Rs7.30 to provide efficient and reliable transport service to the commuters, he said.

The OLMT CEO, Li Chen, said that talented Pakistani professionals had played a key role in the success of the metro train project.

The project was one of its kind under the CPEC initiative. China was committed to cooperating with Pakistan for development.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 3^rd, 2023.