Public transport: LTC to hire adviser for bus terminal project

Applications for post open till November 18.

LAHORE:

The Lahore Transport Company has set up a committee to manage the hiring of a transaction advisor for a project to build a bus terminal cum commercial centre near the City Railway Station.

The committee includes the transport secretary, the LTC chief executive officer, and two other members of the LTC board of directors, which met at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Thursday.

Advertisements were published in the press earlier this month inviting expressions of interest for the post of transaction adviser by November 18. The bus station is to be built on 42 kanals and 15 marlas.

The board also ordered the LTC planning wing to survey the routes in the city in order to evaluate demand for public transport. Around 20 of the 53 high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) routes and 14 of the 47 low-occupancy vehicle (LOV) routes in Lahore are currently not being plied by any buses.

LTC Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassaan said at the meeting that the company was transforming the traditional transport culture in Pakistan and placing special emphasis on planning, enforcement and regulation of urban transport.

Around 140,000 commuters travel daily on the Metro Bus Service.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 1^st, 2013.