Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Tuesday said that the first fleet of 45 buses was expected to arrive from China soon for the 27-kilometre-long Metro Bus System (MBS). LDA sources said that the buses had been manufactured by Volvo China and were expected to arrive in Karachi within the next few weeks. They would be dispatched to Lahore after customs clearance.
The MBS project is expected to serve around 18,000 people every hour by providing them with a mass transit facility. The Metro Bus System is being constructed over Ferozepur Road from Gajju Matta to Shahdra via Lytton Road, MAO College, Lower Mall, Data Darbar, Niazi Chowk and Shahdrah.
Two bus lanes have been allocated for operation of the buses in the middle of the road. For better safety and uninterrupted flow of traffic, fences have also been installed on both sides of the track.
Twenty seven bus stations are being built on the curb side of the MBS lane and in order to avert congested traffic, one of the world’s longest metro bus fly-over is being constructed for MBS, which is almost 8.6 kilometres long.
45 Metro buses to arrive soon
