{"id":75313,"date":"2021-04-02T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=75313"},"modified":"2021-04-02T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:57:41","slug":"electric-bus-added-to-karachis-mass-transport-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/electric-bus-added-to-karachis-mass-transport-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Electric bus added to Karachi&#8217;s mass transport system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The Sindh government on Tuesday launched the electric bus project to Karachi&#8217;s mass transport system \u2013 as part of the public-private projects \u2013 by introducing the first vehicle of the fleet, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/new-bus-service-launch-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PKR 2.5 bn issued to launch new bus service in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transport Minister Awais Qadir Shah announced that the first electric bus in the city is to initially run between Merewether Towe and Sohrab Goth. The initial fare is decided at PKR 4 \u2013 a kilometre. He promised that 100 such buses will be plying the city routes by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/project-finalized-run-200-biogas-powered-buses-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project finalized to run 200 biogas-powered buses in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, Minister Shah said that ten electric<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-to-have-hybrid-buses-by-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> buses<\/a> will be launched during the trial run \u2013 with a fare of PKR 10 from one stop to another, while PKR 4 will be charged per kilometre from the passengers. He also revealed that more buses will be added to the fleet each month and acknowledged that the transport department had been not able to work in its full capacity and that has caused problems for the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects, Minister Shah said that 250 new buses will be brought to the city and that the work on projects was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh government on Tuesday launched the electric bus project to Karachi&#8217;s mass transport system \u2013 as part of the public-private projects \u2013 by introducing the first vehicle of the fleet, according to news sources. Read: PKR 2.5 bn issued to launch new bus service in Karachi Transport Minister Awais Qadir Shah announced that the first electric bus in the city is to initially run between Merewether Towe and Sohrab Goth. The initial fare is decided at PKR 4 \u2013 a kilometre. He promised that 100 such buses will be plying the city routes by the end of the year. Read: Project finalized to run 200 biogas-powered buses in Karachi Moreover, Minister Shah said that ten electric buses will be launched during the trial run \u2013 with a fare of PKR 10 from one stop to another, while PKR 4 will be charged per kilometre from the passengers. He also revealed that more buses will be added to the fleet each month and acknowledged that the transport department had been not able to work in its full capacity and that has caused problems for the masses. Regarding the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects, Minister Shah said that 250 new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":75317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[45631],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-electric-bus-added-to-karachis-mass-transport-system","10":"cat-15016-id","11":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electric bus added to Karachi&#039;s mass transport system - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Transport Minister Awais Qadir Shah announced that the first electric bus in Karachi is to initially run between Merewether Towe and Sohrab Goth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/electric-bus-added-to-karachis-mass-transport-system.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electric bus added to Karachi&#039;s mass transport system - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Transport Minister Awais Qadir Shah announced that the first electric bus in Karachi is to initially run between Merewether Towe and Sohrab Goth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/electric-bus-added-to-karachis-mass-transport-system.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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