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Railways minister inaugurates 10 renovated, overhauled bogies
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique Wednesday inaugurated ten renovated periodical overhauled bogies of train here at Margalla Railway Station.
Talking to media after ribbon cutting ceremony, he said that the renovation and overhauled process was started to meet the requirement of the burgeoning number of passengers and to generate more business.
The minister informed that Pakistan Railways Carriage Factory Islamabad would have to repair and overhauled 100 economy class and 25 air conditioned bogies.
He was of the opinion that the standard and services would be maintained keeping in view the necessity of the travelers.
He figured out that round about rupees four million expenditure had been occurred on each renovated and overhauled bogy adding that over all, Rs. 360 million would be spent on all the bogies and would enhance approximately one billion revenue annually.
Liaquat Ali Chughtai, Managing Director Pakistan Railways Carriage Factory Islamabad said that Pakistan Railways had improved a lot in present regime otherwise it was on the brink of destruction.
He informed that these were those bogies which had completed their life and were standing in the yard since one and half year.
After renovation and overhauling these bogies were very much in functional condition.
Muhammad Saddique, Assistant Works Manager Pakistan Railways Carriage Factory Islamabad said that recently 202 bogies of Chinese design had been handed over to Pakistan Railways and 400 bogies were under rehabilitation process in which 320 bogies work had been completed and only 80 bogies were remaining.
Railways minister inaugurates 10 renovated, overhauled bogies
Red line blues: If you get stuck in Karachi traffic, this plan could change your life
The 12-metre bus has 33 seats and standing capacity for 55 passengers with wheelchair space. The Chinese version costs $160,000 while the British or European ones cost $250,000. SOURCE: ITDP
KARACHI: You use a car or motorcycle to get to work and it takes you at least an hour to reach home after 5pm. Imagine being able to save on fuel, time and stress by taking a bus that flows through traffic uninterrupted because it has its own dedicated lane? Oh, and it’s air-conditioned and safe and one arrives every two minutes.
This is something called Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) and plans are afoot to build it in Karachi for the jugular of MA Jinnah Road, connecting Merewether Tower to as far as University Road.
Existing BRTS routes in the city.
But wait, you say. I prefer my car and I don’t use that route anyway. Fair enough. But you still get stuck in traffic a lot because Karachi has too many cars and not enough public transport (only 9,000 buses for 22 million people). Imagine a system that would take the pressure off our roads?
But more than that, think of the future. You live in the world’s fastest growing megacity. Experts have estimated that we take 24 million trips a day in the city. Being stuck in traffic is costing us $678 million a year. If we don’t do something now, our economy will suffer. Plus, we will just go mad.
The good news is that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and an experienced transport group, the ITDP, have designed a dedicated bus lane system for MA Jinnah Road. They unveiled it on March 20. The bad news is that the Sindh government doesn’t want them to build it.
What is the Red Line?
The ADB asked BRTS experts, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), to make a plan for Karachi. They have been working since August 2014.
The Red line runs from Safoora roundabout, through University Road, and ends at Merewether Tower. Part of it branches out on Sharae Quaideen past Noorani Kebab House. Another branch goes to Landhi from Nursery on Sharae Faisal.
Map of the Red line to be built under the new plan.
“We only have one corridor but we include the existing public bus routes,” explained the ITDP’s Yoga Adiwinarto to The Express Tribune. “This uses third-generation BRT design.” Buses can travel outside the BRT corridor and merge with it. This is how the ADB will fold 23 existing bus routes into the system. These routes include the W-11, Marwat Coach and Gulistan.
Transporters will be helped to acquire the new BRT buses. About 1,500 will be needed. The ITDP counted passengers and found that 45,000 people use these 23 routes daily. Adding BRTS could transport 637,000 people because the buses are not competing or maneuvering against cars and motorcycles in traffic and are stopping at stations.
The ITDP’s cross section of what a BRT line will look like at Safoora.
The Red line will have 38 stations which will be so close that people will only have to walk 250 metres to reach one. The engineers planned them according to where they surveyed people actually stop for buses right now.
The BRT on MA Jinnah road will have stations in red and the spread of the walking access shows in green. Image: ITDP
And all these stations will be on the ground, not elevated, to not only preserve open spaces but also cater to people who find it difficult to climb stairs. Other people’s designs are elevated which stand to destroy the beauty of MA Jinnah Road’s heritage buildings. “[At some point on MA Jinnah Road, the space] is 19 metres wall to wall,” explained Adiwinarto. “We hear that the people who want to build elevated structures will take 14 metres.” That leaves just 2.5 metres of space between the elevated structure and the front of the buildings on either side.
The Red line is cheap as it will cost $4 million per km to build compared to a metro, which costs $10 million per kilometre. You can start immediately and it will take a maximum of 24 months. Metro takes a minimum of three years.
BRTS is big news these days because several people are racing to be the first to do it. This is a good thing because the city needs mass transit to move the ‘masses’ who need to get around but hopefully the Sindh Mass Transit Authority will be passed in the next Sindh Assembly session and be staffed by qualified and honest people. A regulator is needed to manage all the different entities who are rushing to make Karachi’s BRT. You can’t have four different systems made by four different people.
The ADB-ITDP are not the first people to ever design a BRT corridor for Karachi. This has been going on since 1972. What is different this time, though, is that they have fixed a lot of the problems old designs had. It merges with existing bus routes, proposes public transport reform, parking solutions and urban renewal.
And so, even though this is a good plan, which incidentally Karachi urban planner Arif Hasan backs as well, the Sindh government has not decided to use it. “We had a long dialogue with the ADB,” said transport secretary Taha Farooqui on March 20. “It offered to build and finance [BRT] but the Sindh government has decided that it will use its won resources and through international tendering do it.”
Red line blues: If you get stuck in Karachi traffic, this plan could change your life - The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique Wednesday inaugurated ten renovated periodical overhauled bogies of train here at Margalla Railway Station.
Talking to media after ribbon cutting ceremony, he said that the renovation and overhauled process was started to meet the requirement of the burgeoning number of passengers and to generate more business.
The minister informed that Pakistan Railways Carriage Factory Islamabad would have to repair and overhauled 100 economy class and 25 air conditioned bogies.
He was of the opinion that the standard and services would be maintained keeping in view the necessity of the travelers.
He figured out that round about rupees four million expenditure had been occurred on each renovated and overhauled bogy adding that over all, Rs. 360 million would be spent on all the bogies and would enhance approximately one billion revenue annually.
Liaquat Ali Chughtai, Managing Director Pakistan Railways Carriage Factory Islamabad said that Pakistan Railways had improved a lot in present regime otherwise it was on the brink of destruction.
He informed that these were those bogies which had completed their life and were standing in the yard since one and half year.
After renovation and overhauling these bogies were very much in functional condition.
Muhammad Saddique, Assistant Works Manager Pakistan Railways Carriage Factory Islamabad said that recently 202 bogies of Chinese design had been handed over to Pakistan Railways and 400 bogies were under rehabilitation process in which 320 bogies work had been completed and only 80 bogies were remaining.
Railways minister inaugurates 10 renovated, overhauled bogies
Red line blues: If you get stuck in Karachi traffic, this plan could change your life
The 12-metre bus has 33 seats and standing capacity for 55 passengers with wheelchair space. The Chinese version costs $160,000 while the British or European ones cost $250,000. SOURCE: ITDP
KARACHI: You use a car or motorcycle to get to work and it takes you at least an hour to reach home after 5pm. Imagine being able to save on fuel, time and stress by taking a bus that flows through traffic uninterrupted because it has its own dedicated lane? Oh, and it’s air-conditioned and safe and one arrives every two minutes.
This is something called Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) and plans are afoot to build it in Karachi for the jugular of MA Jinnah Road, connecting Merewether Tower to as far as University Road.
Existing BRTS routes in the city.
But wait, you say. I prefer my car and I don’t use that route anyway. Fair enough. But you still get stuck in traffic a lot because Karachi has too many cars and not enough public transport (only 9,000 buses for 22 million people). Imagine a system that would take the pressure off our roads?
But more than that, think of the future. You live in the world’s fastest growing megacity. Experts have estimated that we take 24 million trips a day in the city. Being stuck in traffic is costing us $678 million a year. If we don’t do something now, our economy will suffer. Plus, we will just go mad.
The good news is that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and an experienced transport group, the ITDP, have designed a dedicated bus lane system for MA Jinnah Road. They unveiled it on March 20. The bad news is that the Sindh government doesn’t want them to build it.
What is the Red Line?
The ADB asked BRTS experts, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), to make a plan for Karachi. They have been working since August 2014.
The Red line runs from Safoora roundabout, through University Road, and ends at Merewether Tower. Part of it branches out on Sharae Quaideen past Noorani Kebab House. Another branch goes to Landhi from Nursery on Sharae Faisal.
Map of the Red line to be built under the new plan.
“We only have one corridor but we include the existing public bus routes,” explained the ITDP’s Yoga Adiwinarto to The Express Tribune. “This uses third-generation BRT design.” Buses can travel outside the BRT corridor and merge with it. This is how the ADB will fold 23 existing bus routes into the system. These routes include the W-11, Marwat Coach and Gulistan.
Transporters will be helped to acquire the new BRT buses. About 1,500 will be needed. The ITDP counted passengers and found that 45,000 people use these 23 routes daily. Adding BRTS could transport 637,000 people because the buses are not competing or maneuvering against cars and motorcycles in traffic and are stopping at stations.
The ITDP’s cross section of what a BRT line will look like at Safoora.
The Red line will have 38 stations which will be so close that people will only have to walk 250 metres to reach one. The engineers planned them according to where they surveyed people actually stop for buses right now.
The BRT on MA Jinnah road will have stations in red and the spread of the walking access shows in green. Image: ITDP
And all these stations will be on the ground, not elevated, to not only preserve open spaces but also cater to people who find it difficult to climb stairs. Other people’s designs are elevated which stand to destroy the beauty of MA Jinnah Road’s heritage buildings. “[At some point on MA Jinnah Road, the space] is 19 metres wall to wall,” explained Adiwinarto. “We hear that the people who want to build elevated structures will take 14 metres.” That leaves just 2.5 metres of space between the elevated structure and the front of the buildings on either side.
The Red line is cheap as it will cost $4 million per km to build compared to a metro, which costs $10 million per kilometre. You can start immediately and it will take a maximum of 24 months. Metro takes a minimum of three years.
BRTS is big news these days because several people are racing to be the first to do it. This is a good thing because the city needs mass transit to move the ‘masses’ who need to get around but hopefully the Sindh Mass Transit Authority will be passed in the next Sindh Assembly session and be staffed by qualified and honest people. A regulator is needed to manage all the different entities who are rushing to make Karachi’s BRT. You can’t have four different systems made by four different people.
The ADB-ITDP are not the first people to ever design a BRT corridor for Karachi. This has been going on since 1972. What is different this time, though, is that they have fixed a lot of the problems old designs had. It merges with existing bus routes, proposes public transport reform, parking solutions and urban renewal.
And so, even though this is a good plan, which incidentally Karachi urban planner Arif Hasan backs as well, the Sindh government has not decided to use it. “We had a long dialogue with the ADB,” said transport secretary Taha Farooqui on March 20. “It offered to build and finance [BRT] but the Sindh government has decided that it will use its won resources and through international tendering do it.”
Red line blues: If you get stuck in Karachi traffic, this plan could change your life - The Express Tribune
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Suzuki Kizashi Officially Launched in Pakistan
Pak Suzuki Vendor Development Program Phase II at Port Qasim
Lolx kizashi to whom no body ask here in MiddleEast so now they trying to make run their coin in Asia..
Pak Suzuki Vendor Development Program Phase II at Port Qasim
Lolx kizashi to whom no body ask here in MiddleEast so now they trying to make run their coin in Asia..
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Suzuki Kizashi Officially Launched in Pakistan
Pak Suzuki Vendor Development Program Phase II at Port Qasim
Lolx kizashi to whom no body ask here in MiddleEast so now they trying to make run their coin in Asia..
It's a Failed here to it comes with the price tag of 5.5 million Rupees... you can easily but Audi A 3
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Withdraw a failed product from the global market... bring it to Pakistan.
PakSuzuki needs to grow a brain.
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Pak Suzuki is losing its market no new models of Cars the same car which was introduced in 1992 it's running here with same design
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That's not entirely true, mate. They introduced the WagonR about a year ago, and there is talk of the Celerio being launched there as well. The fact that models like the Cultus, Mehran, and Bolan, are still in production and fly off the rack however, is an utter joke.
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Cultus, Mehran, and Bolan people are buying cause they are cheaper then Honda and Toyota... Honda and Toyota here don't produce 1000 CC and 800 CC cars that's the main reason
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New cargo complex built at Multan International Airport with 10,000 tons storage capacity
Reported by: `Customs Today March 26, 2015
MULTAN: Multan International Airport witnessed Rs 1.467 million passenger travelling during the month of February.
Multan International Airport has been built and inaugurated recently by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Sources told that it will help in boosting the Customs revenue through import and export of various goods. Newly constructed cargo complex with a storage capacity of 10,000 tons is a valuable facility for the importers and exporters of the Multan City.
Newly built international terminal will also assist to expand the wide-bodied aircraft to land and take off for international passenger and cargo flights, so far the Multan International Airport has grabs the revenue of Rs 1.467 million through the passenger travelling in the month of February.
Multan is a commercial, agricultural and industrial hub, as it is connected with the rest of the country through railway and airport service. It is also fifth populous and biggest city of Pakistan.
The Model of Customs Collectorate Multan (MCC) has collected the sale tax of Rs 28213, income tax of RS 73955 and Customs duty tax of Rs 34312 during the month of February. These collections were collected from the passenger before the inauguration of Multan International Airport.
Air Freight unit of Multan International Airport has generated the revenue of Rs 202414 during the month of February. The Customs duty collected from the air freight unit was Rs 10120, sale tax Rs 11254 and income tax of Rs 12308 in the month of February of the current fiscal year.
Customs Authorities are very hopeful that the Multan International Airport will boost the import and export of the South Punjab region by increasing the revenue of Customs very soon.
Bahria Towm will make Metro in Karachi From Super Highway to Airport and from and From Super Highway to Tower
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Not necessarily failed, it just couldn't compete in that segment in those markets. In Pakistan, it will face a lot less competition.
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Audi A3 is for 3.5 million (base model)...and don't tell me this PoS Suzuki is for 5.5 million!!!!!
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Audi A3 is for 3.5 million (base model)...and don't tell me this PoS Suzuki is for 5.5 million!!!!!
it's really 5.5 million rupees check this
Suzuki Kizashi Officially Launched in Pakistan - PakWheels Blog
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