Karachi citizens face trouble at Green Line BRT Numaish station

KARACHI: Citizens especially the elderly people and patients were facing extreme trouble at Green Line BRT station at Karachi’s Numaish station due to the non-functional escalator.

The commuters using the Green Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) were facing difficulties at Numaish station due to its non-functional escalator.

A journalist Syed Sibte Hassan Rizvi wrote on Twitter, “Thanks for the Green Line BRT, but where are the facilities that were promised?”

He said, “Just look at these senior citizens. Couldn’t run an elevator in such a long time??” Rizvi spotted that it was the Green Line BRT’s Numaish station.

Thanks for the Green Line BRT, but where are the facilities that were promised?

Just look at these senior citizens.
Couldn’t run an elevator in such a long time??

Location : Numaish Station.#SIDCL #KarachiBreeze #ElevatorsNeededinBRTStations pic.twitter.com/vDxJr8ZHqS

— Syed Sibte Hassan Rizvi (@SibteHR) July 28, 2022

It should be noted that the Green Line Bus project was inaugurated by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2016. The project was to be completed in two years. However, the PML-N government could not complete the project. The project was delayed multiple times due to different reasons.

Later, former prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Green Line bus service pilot project on December 10, 2021, and was made functional in January 2022.

After a month of its formal operation, more than a million people have travelled through its dedicated corridor on 80 buses in February, raising expectations that the service would cater for the projected number of commuters every day within the first six months.

According to official data, from the formal launch on January 10 till Feb 9 evening, a total of 1,093,000 passengers had travelled on Green Line without any break.

This shows on average 35,000 people moved on 80 buses of the project on weekdays and the number sometimes swelled to 50,000 during weekends, Dawn reported.

The federal government-funded public transport project despite off and on complaints about maintenance of its related services has been seen as a ‘blessing’ for the people mainly in district Central who believe that the much-awaited scheme had finally started yielding results.