Yes but the only problem is, Orange Train is needed when people have clean safe drinking water, hospitals and educational facilities. When the Government cancels 600 projects that were aimed for clean drinking, education, healthcare and other social issues to fund the Orange Train, this really becomes an issue. Punjab Government canceled 38 billion rupees worth of funding for South, just to redirect the money to Orange Train, is that really justified? Have you seen how much poverty there is in South Punjab?
BRT is cheap, feasible, depends on what the cost is but seriously, in what world can a poor province like Punjab afford to spend $1.6 billion on a freaking train line when 80% of the people in Lahore don't have access to clean drinking water.
why do people prattle this bullshit?
Punjab? Poor? lol, punjab is the only province which pulls less and puts more in the nfc.
who says transit is NOT as important as water, schools, hospitals? where does this bullshit thinking come from? Seriously? What is with this stupid mentality? Does any one have ANY idea how much we spend on fuel subsidy in this country, just because of non-functional transport system? (hint, it's in the billion of dollars, yes dollars, nor rupees)
Besides, have you not heard of Punjab Saaf Pani project and what not?
Metro train money is a loan, it would not have gone to schools and hospitals anyway.
Want schools and tubewells? Pay up property tax, and that too on market rate, not that decades old "book" rate people put on the registry. How do you think other countries fund schools, water, sewage etc in localities? By taxing toffees and mobile cards? But of course, when you see a house for millions but put on registry thousands, and pay tax on that... guess why we don't have money for anything.
Hospitals? make medical insurance mandatory. Oh wait, insurance toh haraam hae, we love working in companies with "medical" because we don't know (or pretend) that it's actually medical insurance. If govt implements a mandatory health insurance mandate, there will be riots and CII will ban that bill. Then we wonder why hospitals are underfunded.
Don't want orange train? good, cancel it. But don't prattle bullshit. Yes south punjab needs care, yes ganjas are corrupt as f**k... but stop using metro as a crutch.
look at our air pollution reading on WHO website, three of the top ten most polluted air cities are in pakistan.