ISLAMABAD: Public transport sector is taking advantage of current petrol shortage particularly the taxi drivers are overcharging from passengers.
Public transport which is already short on all routes and people have to wait for hours at bus stops, have no other option to pay fares of their demand to reach their destinations.
Rawalpindi Transport Authority has announced a new fare list after massive reduction in petrol prices but transporters are not ready to follow the new list, even charging almost double saying, “We have to wait for hours in queues to get petrol so extra fare is our right”.
Asad Khan, who travels daily from Committee Chowk to Blue Area, where he works at a private firm said, “I have to reach office at 9.00 am and usually leave home at 8.00 am but now it is hard to get transport so come to stop at 7.00 am or even before to reach office in time.
He said now a days it is a gigantic task to get seat in a van as they are already filled and conductors are not willing to board long route passengers.
“I have to take van up to Faizabad and then get another van for Poly Clinic Stop from where I walk to my office at Blue Area”, he said, adding, “for last one week I am paying double fare up to Faizabad and then to the next stop and same is the practice in evening”.
All my office colleagues narrate same tales after reaching office and our budget is badly affecting as the salaries are the same but the transport expenses are almost double.
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