KARACHI: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) guru Enrique Penalosa has been in the city of Karachi at the invitation of the Asian Development Bank.
Karachi is the world’s seventh-largest metropolis with an estimated population of nearly 21 million inhabitants packed in an area of 310 square miles, making it the tenth densest large city in the world.
BRT are the buzzwords in the global mass-transit community.
It has been divided into colour-coded ‘lines’ which were first set out in a plan devised by the Japanese in 2010. There is the real prospect of this vital project falling into disarray. A lack of political competencies seems to have once again got in the way of essential development — and Karachi deserves better than this.
