{"id":7258,"date":"2022-12-16T18:37:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2022-12-16T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:37:01","slug":"cda-to-establish-its-own-islamabad-public-transport-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/cda-to-establish-its-own-islamabad-public-transport-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"CDA to Establish Its Own Islamabad Public Transport Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority has planned to establish its own Islamabad Public Transport Wing to operate the Metro Bus Services.<\/p>\n<p>This came after the Federal Government failed to develop a dedicated mass transit authority for Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the National Highway Authority and CDA jointly proposed to establish a service identical to the Punjab Mass Transit Authority and to run the operations of the metro bus service in the capital.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:1em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/cda-takes-steps-to-curb-illegal-encroachments-in-the-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\" class=\"u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83\"><style> .u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83 { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#2C3E50; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #F1C40F!important; text-decoration:none; } .u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83:active, .u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83 { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83 .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#F1C40F; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83 .postTitle { color:#eaeaea; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .u5dc4982a6b98067c11671d46f8a09c83:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style><div style=\"padding-left:1em; padding-right:1em;\"><span class=\"ctaText\">ALSO READ<\/span>&nbsp; <span class=\"postTitle\">CDA Takes Steps to Curb Illegal Encroachments in the Capital<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<p>However, the Orange Line Metro Bus Service operations that covered the area from Peshawar Mor to New International Airport were handed over to the CDA by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, two metro services, green and blue lines, started to operate between PIMS hospital to Bara Kahu and Koral Chowk to PIMS hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The service started on the instructions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and later its operations were handed over to the CDA. At present, it is handled temporarily by Faisal Movers.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to mention that the CDA has also been engaged in obtaining buses and running 13 feeders linking different parts of the twin cities to the metro bus routes.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the CDA is managing all the operations related to transit service with limited staff and has planned to establish a dedicated wing headed by the Deputy Director General to manage the operations of the metro bus service.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:1em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/islamabad-to-get-13-new-routes-for-orange-and-red-line-brts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\" class=\"ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12\"><style> .ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12 { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#2C3E50; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #F1C40F!important; text-decoration:none; } .ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12:active, .ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12 { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12 .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#F1C40F; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12 .postTitle { color:#eaeaea; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .ubd3bd1405f9c239807cbf118b767df12:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style><div style=\"padding-left:1em; padding-right:1em;\"><span class=\"ctaText\">ALSO READ<\/span>&nbsp; <span class=\"postTitle\">Islamabad to Get 13 New Routes for Orange and Red Line BRTs<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was also shared that the authority will be hiring 78 individuals on contract for this wing.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the road authority has contacted two consultants responsible for a feasibility study to develop a mass transit system that will operate between Rawat and Faisal Masjid and Bara Kahu and PIMS hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Consultants will also conduct a feasibility study for developing transport Infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority has planned to establish its own Islamabad Public Transport Wing to operate the Metro Bus Services. This came after the Federal Government failed to develop a dedicated mass transit authority for Islamabad. Earlier, the National Highway Authority and CDA jointly proposed to establish a service identical to the Punjab Mass Transit Authority and to run the operations of the metro bus service in the capital.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/clean-Islamabad.jpg",1000,560,false],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/clean-Islamabad.jpg",1000,560,false],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/clean-Islamabad.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Nazzir Zaidi","categories_name":["News"],"title_text":"CDA to Establish Its Own Islamabad Public Transport Wing","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=5&exclude=7258","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/proproperty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}