ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will inaugurate Rawalpindi-Islamabad on June 3 (Wednesday), announced Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif after visiting some portions of the route along with journalists and party leaders.
Shahbaz Sharif, while addressing a press conference at Punjab House, said that the project will provide better transportation facility to the people travelling between the twin cities. He said that the driving force behind the project was to provide quality and comfortable public transport facility to the residents of twin cities and to bridge the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
The chief minister said that such a quality public transport facility must be provided to the residents of other provinces too, adding the federal government was already working on plans in coordination with the provincial governments to initiate such projects in big cities across the country where people are confronted with similar problem.
The Metro Bus Route spread over 23 kilometers was completed in record time half of which was elevated while the remaining portion was on ground.
