Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif will commute to and from his office on the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) after its inauguration on February 10 to promote use of public transport, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources on good authority revealed that the decision has been taken to make the multibillion rupees BRTS project “successful”. The step is an attempt to make travelling on the public transport popular among the people. According to details, the CM will go to his office in the Punjab Civil Secretariat for one week using the newly launched articulated buses along with the people.
However, a lot of questions are being asked about other senior officials not following in the footsteps of the provincial chief executive. The BRTS passes directly in front of the Punjab Civil Secretariat, but the question on whether the secretaries and other top officials prefer leaving their cars and travel on the public transport is still hangs in the balance.
Punjab government’s spokesperson Senator Pervaiz Rasheed said the chief minister will use the BRTS not only for a week but will keep commuting on it of and on. He said the chief minister using public transport is a message for other officials also to leave behind cars and prefer public transport. “We cannot make it a law restricting someone from using cars, as this is not a communist country. However the CM has decided this positive step to make this popular among the masses,” he added.
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It is a good step so middle class people ( if there is any middle clas left, it seems there are only poor people or previlged ones in the society ). Anyways, poor take bus all the time and if they can not afford the bus they take bus number 11, which is walking. THose two legs are bus number 11. But middle class can use the new bus system and it will affect to cut down the traffic on the roads and it will also save commuting time from one place to the other. Hopefully, bureaucracy should use it too, so the system is successful. Good luck Lahore commuters and traffic.
Perhaps he made this BRTS for himself in the city of Lahore. Shame on him. We all know that this mega billion project does not serve the masses. The city needs to break the bottle necks for smooth flow of traffic. The city also needs to remove the slow moving carts from the roads. A small amount spent on such projects could make the life in this city tolerable.
Owners of motorcar cannot visualize the benifit to the commom man through BRTS. it is an occassion to take pride in our achievement as a nation, above political affillations. It is sad to read comments of shame, dramabaz, dhokebaz. For God sake take pride in your achievements
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