Prime Minister Imran Khan will kick off the five-year trial phase of the much-anticipated Green Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service in Karachi today (Friday).
The bus service will consist of 80 hybrid buses that will travel a 22-kilometer route from Surjani to the Municipal Park near Jama Cloth Market, stopping at 23 stations along the way.
On a one-day visit, the prime minister will arrive in the megacity on Friday afternoon. He will kick off the first phase of the Karachi Transformation Plan’s hybrid bus project.
A delegation of businesses is expected to visit him at the Governor’s House, according to sources. PM Imran Khan will also be visited by officials from the PTI Sindh region.
After the project’s inauguration, PM Khan will fly to Islamabad. The Green Line is a bus rapid transit system.
The PML-federal N’s cabinet announced the Green Line Bus project in July 2014. The foundation stone for the 17.8-kilometer route from Surjani to Guru Mandir was set on February 26, 2016.
Passengers will be aided by modern state-of-the-art lifts and automatic ticketing systems at every bus station. On digital screens built at bus stations, all information regarding bus arrival and departure will be visible.
Each bus would hold 200 to 250 passengers, and the fee is estimated to range between Rs20 and Rs50. The buses will be equipped with everything from USB ports to wheelchairs.
Buses will run to the Tower in the project’s second phase. A two-story underpass is being built near Guru Mandir and Numaish Chowrangi as part of the Green Line Bus project, where not only buses will run to international standards.
To fulfil the demands of modern times, a control room with at least 900 cameras has been put up to monitor the Green Line bus project and passenger security.
