Metro buses: CDA to run feeder buses to augment service

ISLAMABAD:

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will run feeder buses to pick up and deliver passengers to metro bus stations and to improve overall traffic facilities in the capital city. Source said that the civic agency was planning to run 22 buses covering major routes to facilitate commuters. It was expected that the feeder routes would be operational within four months’ time. The authority has planned four routes and the first route from Bhara Kahu while covering Dhokri, Aabpara, Polyclinic and F-6 Sector will end at Marghzar Zoo.  The second route will be from Rawat to Faisal Mosque. The third route from Tarnol while covering Sector G-13, G and F series sectors will culminate at the Fatima Jinnah (F-9) Park. The fourth route from Railway Carriage Factory will go up to IJP Road metro station.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 27^th,  2015.