ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: Some newly constructed metro bus stations, worth millions of rupees, could not withstand the heavy monsoon showers on Tuesday and were flooded with rainwater...
The worst affected bus stations were Peshawar Mor, Centaurus, 7th Avenue, Kutchery and Shaheed-i-Milat stations where water flowed down the staircases and dripped from the ceiling, inundating the stations...
LAHORE: Visually challenged persons on Sunday blocked the Metro bus service track in protest against non-acceptance of their demand for regularisation of jobs...
Around 30 visually impaired people gathered at the Kalma Chowk and blocked the Metro bus track demanding regularisation of their service and quota in jobs...
A medical student was killed when a Metro bus she was travelling on ran her over in Rawalpindi Friday, police said...
Sameera, a 19-year-old student of the Shifa College of Medicine, was travelling to Islamabad when the driver pulled the emergency brakes near the Rehmanabad bus station, apparently due to ongoing construction work in the area...
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LAHORE: The Punjab Mass Transit Authority increased on Friday the fare of Lahore and Rawalpindi metro buses from Rs20 to Rs30...
However, the fare for Multan metro bus would remain the same...
RAWALPINDI: A woman was allegedly tortured and raped by a university student in the underpass of the Metro Bus Station in Rehmanabad on Tuesday...
She said her brother contacted him, following which she travelled to Rawalpindi with her aunt...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to inaugurate the Rawalpindi-Islamabad metro bus service on April 30 so that the residents of the twin cities could travel on the buses on Labour Day...
The decision was taken at a review meeting of the metro bus project on Friday and the message of the Punjab chief minister and the prime minister was also conveyed to the participants...
I was attending a public hearing for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report that had been readied for the latest metro bus project connecting the Federal capital with the New Islamabad International Airport...
The new airport is to be inaugurated on 14th August this year, hence the government is in a rush to have the new Rs18 billion metro bus operational in time for the airport's opening...
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N’s flagship project, the metro bus service, has failed to achieve its estimated ridership figure during its first eight months since its operations in Rawalpindi and Islamabad...
Citing a report from July 1, 2015 to Feb 29, 2016, a source in the Punjab Metro Bus Authority (PBMA) said ridership was below the National Engineering Services Pakistan’s (Nespak) estimated figure...
RAWALPINDI: The fare for the metro bus between Rawalpindi and Islamabad will be increased from Rs20 to Rs30 per person on Friday...
The Punjab government has given the Punjab Masstransit Authority (PMA) the green light to increase fares for the service between Rawalpindi and Islamabad and in Lahore, while the fare in Multan will remain unchanged...
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior and Punjab government have agreed to jointly run Islamabad Metro Bus Project (IMBP) which has become an example of government’s negligence even though 90 per cent work is complete...
After a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Communication, a senior NHA official told Dawn that the Capital Development Authority (under the interior ministry) and the Punjab Mass Transport Authority (PMTA) of...
ISLAMABAD: The much-awaited metro bus service from Peshawar Mor to the Islamabad International Airport is likely to start in April as buses are expected to arrive from China at the end of this month...
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) was planning to inaugurate the bus service on March 23 but due to a delay on part of the manufacturing company in arranging the buses because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the inauguration was delayed...
ISLAMABAD: On the direction of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has started working to interlink the Rawalpindi-Islamabad and the Peshawar Mor-airport metro bus services...
A brief issued by the PM Office said that from Monday both the metro services will be merged...
• BRT Peshawar boosts safety, hires female staff • Getting to the bus stop remains a problem for manyPESHAWAR: Mah Jabeen credits a new public bus system in her home city with saving her from being stuck at her parents’ house doing chores — or even having to get married...
Thanks to the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Peshawar, 23-year-old Jabeen said she had been able to continue her master’s degree — keeping alive her dreams of...
LAHORE: Visually challenged people blocked on Wednesday the Metro bus service corridor for more than 10 hours in protest at the non-regularisation of their jobs...
Up to 25 challenged people gathered at Kalma Chowk and blocked the dedicated Metro bus route to get attention of the provincial government for regularisation of their service and quota in jobs...