Peshawar BRT: A Comedy of Errors?

[Thunder.Storm]

What will be ticket price if no subsidy is given?

Ticket will not be fixed. It will charge stop to stop bases. Mean total (27km) ticket price is 60, if some one cover half distance he will pay 30 rs.

 

[Kabira]

Ticket will not be fixed. It will charge stop to stop bases. Mean total (27km) ticket price is 60, if some one cover half distance he will pay 30 rs.

With these prices even metro bus in pindi and lahore can be subsidy free.

 

[sakha39]

Only ARY is credible source of news in Pakistan... people should only watch ARY...

Jee bilkul jaise ap credible hain. Ap ki tareef ?

 

[alphapak]

Lahore Mtero = 27-30 Billion rupees

Islamabad-Rawalpindi = 50 Billion ( including 5 billion for Peshawar Morr interchange)

Multan Metro = 28.5 Billion

Islamabad Metro 2 (Under Construction) = 18.5 Billion

Karachi Metro (Under Construction) = 22 Billion


Peshawar BRT Bus Rapid Transit Project = 57 Billion



Those buses are known as Feeder buses which are already running in Lahore and Multan which takes people to the nearest Metro Stations

Also planned in Peshawar and Rawalpindi

Peshawar cost is more becuase they are building parking plaza's, 1100 shops,
bike sharing system etc.

 

[kabooter_maila]

There is a standard procedure, world over, before any project is initiated –well, unless you are building a sand castle. First, an idea or concept is outlined, then a pre-construction planning document is prepared, also known as the PC-1. This usually is a thick tome of papers that define the building methodology to guide the construction. Finally, once all paperwork is exhausted, the on groundwork begins.

But the Peshawar’s first Rapid-Bus-Transit (BRT) line is unique. Its planners never felt the need to draw up a PC-1. Which is why soon after construction began, it ran into troubles. Troubles that could have been avoided with a simple paper blueprint. For example, work on the Hashtnagri area of the Grand Trunk Road had to be halted, mid-way. Why? Because the BRT track would have blocked five U-turns that led from Gulbahar to the Sikander Pur neighbourhood of Peshawar, and essentially block access to the Arbab Sikandar Khan flyover that connects the two areas. Hence, after much scratching of the heads, the planners were forced to return to the drawing board. Days later, it was decided to build a flyover parallel to the Arbab Sikandar Khan to accommodate the bus track.

At another site, near Peshawar’s Firdous Cinema, the BRT team was ferociously digging up a long underpass, when it realised that the undergoing work was putting the Shahi Katha, a 150-year-old drainage system, at risk of overflowing and flooding nearby areas. Work came to a screeching halt. The trenches were quickly filled up again. For those who don’t know, the Shahi Katha was built during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Its network of sewers is spread over ten kilometres and it is to this day the main sewage line of the city. Every child in Peshawar has heard of or read about the historical importance of this ancient drainage system. Except, it seems, for the far-sighted officials, who are now deliberating on whether to entirely take apart the drains and continue building or to keep their track at ground level?

Now onto the Malik Saad Flyover near the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly. This project has a sad history. It was initiated under the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) in 2002. They could not complete it in their five-year tenure. Next, in power, was the Awami National Party (ANP), which could also not finish the project. Finally, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf-led provincial government took three years and got the job done. But now that newly constructed bridge might be demolished again, to make way for the bus route.

There are several such moments of incredulity or comedy of errors. An underpass was completed near the Aman Chowk. But just before the finishing touches could be laid, they realised that the underpass did not have required height to let a bus pass through.

Poor planning is evident for this Rs49 billion project. One day it is decided to erect a bus station at the Karkhano Market. The next day that decision is scrapped. Last year, the provincial government spent Rs. 2 billion to beautify the GT road, which is now in ruins due to the BRT work.

Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak had hoped to open Peshawar’s Bus-Rapid-Transit line by April, before the national elections. But there seems to be no clear verdict on when he will cut the ribbon.

Source: https://www.geo.tv/latest/187353-peshawars-brt-a-comedy-of-errorsView attachment 461058

These idiots of PTI cannot organize even a political rally or a small jalsa in a orderly fashion, how they can take on mega projects like a rapid bus transit system. For four years, the charsi khhota has been labeling Lahore metro bus as jangla bus. Then he realized that the metro bus has made the life a bit easier for millions of its users on daily bases. While foreseeing his miserable fate in 2018 elections, this idiot started similar project in Peshawar without any planning and conducting basic work. Its cost was already set to be double the cost of Lahore metro bus project but I am sure it will shoot up even higher. I wonder what'll happen to Pakistan if this charsi becomes Pak PM. But thanks God, there are absolutely no chances of this bloody fool becoming Pak PM. In fact, 'the boys' have already made the charsi sit in Zardari's lap. Congratulations, Zardai got another political child.

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Peshawar cost is more becuase they are building parking plaza's, 1100 shops,
bike sharing system etc.

1100 shops yeah right .... Wait few months I'll ask you for the pictures of those shops

 

[BATMAN]

Planning is always the first casualty in Projects in Pakistan.
Even the cost estimations are simply guess work, potential losses are recovered by forcing labour to give double productivity.
This is Pakistani style management.

As far Peshawar BRT is concerned, after all it will be monument of hypocrisy.

 

[Kabira]

Metro bus build from loan which will be payed by KP in decades to come, total amount Rs90 billion. So much for subsidy free metro bus.

 

[Dastaan]

Peshawar cost is more becuase they are building parking plaza's, 1100 shops,
bike sharing system etc.

Now compare It with orange train..

This brings the total cost of orange train to Rs192.8 billion according to available documents. While some news reports suggest that it now stands at Rs217 billion.

The Orange train will serve only 2.2pc of Lahore’s transport needs and 0.2pc transport needs of the people of Punjab who will pay 14 billion annually for it.
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Orange train =217 billion

total development budget of KP=208 billion


217 billion+14 billion per annum for 0.2pc

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Now compare It with orange train..

This brings the total cost of orange train to Rs192.8 billion according to available documents. While some news reports suggest that it now stands at Rs217 billion.

The Orange train will serve only 2.2pc of Lahore’s transport needs and 0.2pc transport needs of the people of Punjab who will pay 14 billion annually for it.
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Orange train =217 billion

total development budget of KP=208 billion


217 billion+14 billion per annum for 0.2pc

KPK also signed $1.6 billion MoU for greater Peshawar Circular train
Also remember that

 

[Thunder.Storm]

KPK also signed $1.6 billion MoU for greater Peshawar Circular train
Also remember that

You are right. That circular railway project is between 5 cities. It will cover charsada, mardan , and peshawar in first phase. And in second phase it will connect nowshehra an swabi. But this project is not going to happen.