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  • PM opens work on metro bus route to new airport

    ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday inaugurated the construction of a metro bus route to connect the federal capital with the New Islamabad International Airport near Fatehjang...

    6 kilometre-long route from Peshawar Mor to the new airport will be completed before Independence Day this year as the premier has already announced that he would inaugurate the new airport in August...

  • Route of Peoples bus service to be expanded to Clifton, DHA

    KARACHI: On the demand of citizens and increasing popularity of the Sindh Peoples Intra-District Bus Service, the transport department is set to start the service in Clifton, Defence Housing Authority and Gulshan-i-Hadeed routes very soon...

    “It was also decided in the meeting that Peoples Intra-District Bus Service will start its operations in Larkana from July 16 with a fleet of 16 buses,” it said, adding that there would be four...

  • Another route of ‘red bus’ being launched today

    KARACHI: The Peoples Bus Service, popularly known as red bus, will begin operation on another route in the metropolis from Wednesday (today)...

    The new route will start from North Nazimabad’s Five Star Chowrangi via KDA Chow­rangi, Nazimabad Eid­gah, Liaquatabad No 10, Esa Nagri, Civic Centre, National Stadium, Karsaz, Nursery, FTC Building, Korangi Road, KPT Interchange and Shan Chowrangi in Korangi...

  • KCR expected to start on City-Orangi route from Dec 15

    KARACHI: Flyovers and underpasses on 11 out of 24 level crossings on the KCR track will be constructed by the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), it emerged on Tuesday...

    Officials said that participants in a meeting held to review the work being carried out on the 44km KCR route at the commissioner office were informed that the provincial transport department had initiated work on level crossings and three flyovers and eight...

  • KCR made operational on 14km-long Orangi-City route

    KARACHI: Following last week’s test runs, the City Railway Station to Orangi Station track of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) was made operational and accessible to the public on Wednesday...

    And now they were hearing that they can travel within the city and even further on this train...

  • Careem, Uber given 7 days to obtain Karachi route permits from Sindh govt

    Sindh Transport Minister Awais Qadir Shah on Monday asked his staff to write to ride-sharing services companies Careem and Uber and direct them to obtain their Karachi route permits from the provincial government within seven days or risk termination of services, DawnNewsTV reported...

    "Only a memorandum of understanding was signed [between the government and the companies]; after that, nothing happened," an official was reported to...

  • PIA shuts down Karachi-Dalbandin route

    CHAGAI: The national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines, has stopped operating the Karachi to Dalbandin route due to financial losses, said its officials on Saturday, amid an outcry from residents who called for its immediate restoration...

    Abdul Hafeez, a PIA official based in Karachi, told Dawn that lately the carrier was observing a decrease in the number of passengers in its ATR aircraft route PK-521 and often most...

  • Agreement signed for intra-city and intercity bus projects in Sindh

    KARACHI: The long-awaited financing agreement between the transport and mass transit department and the Sindh Modaraba was signed here on Wednesday at a ceremony held at CM House to launch intra-city and intercity bus projects...

    Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister said the traffic problem in Karachi was becoming too serious day by day...

  • Myanmar’s largest city launches bus network

    YANGON: Myanmar launched a new public transport system in its largest city on Monday, for the first time introducing regular bus lines, timetables and salaries for drivers in a move that could transform the lives of some five million Yangon city dwellers...

    The reform is the largest public-facing project with immediate impact on the city where country leader Aung San Suu Kyi won big in historic 2015 election, and a major test for her...

  • Only 165 of 446 bus routes functional in city, govt tells SHC

    KARACHI: While there are hardly 6,000 public transport vehicles to cater to the 23 million or so people of the city, only 165 of the 446 routes of buses, minibuses and coaches are functional, it emerged on Saturday...

    The provincial government’s transport and mass transit department filed a detailed report in the Sindh High Court stating that about 51 per cent commuters used public transport in the city that generated 23 million...

  • How India's 'Garden City' became garbage city

    Hailed first as the country's Garden City and then its Silicon Valley, drawing in multinational IT firms and their monied executives, today Bangalore is paying a heavy price for its success ? it's a city overflowing with garbage, its infrastructure and waste collection services unable to keep up with decades of unchecked growth...

    Located on a plateau and blessed with a relatively cool climate, the city is dotted with public parks and...

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