This article will particularly highlight the issue of absence of Mass Transit System in the city of Karachi. Launching of Karachi BRT is the most awaited news and people are waiting to hear that news since last 4 years, read the full article to know about the insight and depth of the issue
This article will particularly highlight the issue of absence of Mass Transit System in the city of Karachi. Launching of Karachi BRT is the most awaited news and people are waiting to hear that news since last 4 years, read the full article to know about the insight and depth of the issue.
Karachi is having the population of around 15 million, and right now the 7th largest city of the world in terms of population according to United Nations 2018 estimates. And you will get amazed to know a very unique thing about this city that, “It does not have any government operated public transport system”. The people used to travel through their Motorcycles and Cars, and people travels to around 10-12 kilometres daily through their privately managed vehicles to get to their workplaces. People used to spend a quarter of their income to meet their transportation expenses.
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Mass transit systems in cities of other countries scaling similar to Karachi
Other cities of such a huge scale like Karachi in terms of both area and population usually establishes and manages mass transit systems. Our neighboring country India is having its largest city in this list called Mumbai and Mumbai is having best Mass transit system in India, called Mumbai Suburban Railway, more than 53% of Mumbai’s overall population uses MSR.
Our another neighbor and our best friend China is having its city Shanghai in that top 10 list of largest cities, it is also having one of the best mass transit systems of all time called Shanghai Metro rapid-transit system. SMRTS is being established with 16 lines now to accommodate most of the passengers, because majority of the population likes to travel through SMRTS.
A failed attempt of running Karachi BRT by Ex-Mayor Mustafa Kamal
During the tenure of General Musharraf’s government when Karachi was being run by the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) under the leadership of Ex-Mayor Mustafa Kamal, at that time people of Karachi were being facilitated by the Green Bus Service. But after a short span of time the service got retarded due to the lack of funds for their maintenance and paying salaries to the staff.
Karachi has become so much isolated since the end of General Musharraf’s reign in terms of attention and focus by both provincial and federal governments. CDGK was being suspended by the provincial government of Sindh with a controversial type of ordinance. The ordinance was passed in the .....................
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