The construction of the Karachi Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Red Line project began yesterday and includes the completion of the path from Tank Chowk nearby Malir Halt to Safoora Chowrangi in the first phase.
The construction will affect the flow of traffic, and the Sindh Traffic Police has advised motorists to bypass the Tank Chowk to Saforra Chowrangi via Check Post No. 6, Malir Cantt route. The traffic police have also provided alternate routes in its diversion plan.
Alternate Routes
People traveling from Malir Cantt and the Motorway can use University Road which runs parallel to Malir Cantt Check Post No. 5 to reach Safoora Chowrangi.
Motorists headed towards University Route from Tank Chowk can enter Cantt Road and get on University Road via the road near Mosamiyat.
Traffic to Pehalwan Goth from Tank Chowk and Model Colony can use the Cantt Road. It can alternatively take the route towards Kamran Chowrangi and link to University Road from there, or take Habib University Road to reach Johar Chowrangi.
Chairman of the NED Urban and Infrastructure Engineering Department, Dr. Adnan Qadir, said that the Red Line runs from Tank Chowrangi to Safoora Chowrangi through Race Course Road. It continues on Karachi University Road to New MA Jinnah Road and ends at Naumaish Chowrangi.
He revealed that a three-story parking structure for the Green, Red, and Yellow Line BRTs will be built at Naumaish Chowrangi.
All the BRT routes end at Naumaish Chowrangi. Dr. Qadir added that a shuttle bus service from Naumaish to Merewether Tower is also in the pipeline.
Via samaa
Sindh govt is unable to complete mere 4 KM orange line from Orangi to matric board office…
Project hanging for last 4 years
People bus service shut down 👎 due to lack of funds… Bus service used to run from Dawood chowrangi to Sadar
To ye konsa complete hona hai.
Haahaa so funny sindh government can’t complete a 4km track for 5 years and going to start an another project my advice to sindh government not start work because one time it will start and other day the work will closed for whole 2 to 3 generations it will only disterub our next generation because of incompletion of work and after 5 generations it will be an antique piece of garbage and the name of safora will change to laal kachra pati well there will nathing like red but for the rememberness of Sindh government has given us such a antique piece of red line bus as laal kachra pati
The green bus track specially at the stations have narrowed the existing traffic path specially at Nagan chorangi and in new karachi. This is causing traffic choking wasting fuel and time. Also after the station construction is completed the roads are not repaired. The related concerns have to resolve it in public interest at the earliest.