KARACHI: Sindh Transport Secretary Tauha Ahmed Farooqui, speaking at a workshop organised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the bus rapid transit, said that the provincial government will use its own resources to establish The Red Line, a route of Bus Rapid Transit System and will make it operational by the end of next year or early 2017
The Sindh government took this decision after the ADB withdrew from the project and decided to relocate to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to work on the same project in Peshawar.
The minister said that the BRT was much more affordable than the circular railway, subway or metro. He said the government had already submitted a bill in the assembly to establish the Sindh Mass Transit Authority.
According to ADB Urban Development Specialist (Transport) for Central and West Asia David Margonsztern, the bank had earlier planned to bring in over $105 million to set up 26km-long route of The Red Line. But after spending around $1 million on the project, the team was now relocating to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where it would work on a BRT project in Peshawar.
