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Taxi Service for Women Will Soon Be Launched in Karachi

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Taxi Service for Women Will Soon Be Launched in Karachi

Fare would range between Rs.200-500. In second phase, the Blue Taxi Service will be launched – Sharjeel Memon

Our Correspondent    

Karachi

Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam Memon on Tuesday announced that electric taxi service will be launched soon in Karachi under Sindh Mass Transit Authority.

“It has been agreed in principle in a meeting that taxi service will be launched in two phases with fleet of Blue and Pink Taxi. The Pink Taxi will be reserved for women only,” minister announced this while talking to the media at Sindh Assembly media corner.

The minister said that in the first phase Pink Taxi Service for women will be launched and lady captains will be hired to drive pink taxi service and its fare would be between Rs.200 to 500.

He added that a proper monitoring system including cameras will be installed in taxi service for the safety of the passengers.

The minister said that public transport system is being modernized in the province.

He said that the BRT orange line is functional and it is being redesigned to integrate it with the green line. He said that people’s bus service has been successfully running its operations in Karachi, Larkana, and Hyderabad and at the end of December, it will be launched in Sukkur city.

He said that the first electric bus service will also be launched soon in Karachi and negotiations on the agreement with operators are in the final phase.

He said that BRT Yellow Line will start soon and its construction will commence with construction of the bridge along with the Jam Sadiq Bridge, which will also start soon as an international bidding process has been started and traffic police had been directed to divert the heavy traffic on the bridge.

He called traffic a serious issue in the city and said JICA had conducted a study on Karachi traffic in 2011.  But now a Lebanese company has been tasked to conduct a new study on traffic and it is under way.

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