For decades Karachi craves for a proper mass transport system. KCR can offer some critical advantages, which includes the following.
Keeping in view the magnanimous size of every day travelers in Karachi, it can be easily imagined that this project will save millions of tons of gasoline. Hence this project must be considered as a supply side policy intervention to correct the current account deficit in the long term. If Karachi possesses 10% of the country’s population, it is safe and prudent to assume that the city consumes at least 10% of the country’s gasoline. Hence if this is the case, it can be proposed that this project could be a precious source of saving import dollars which will ease out the dollar deficit.
Another ballooning problem that the city is facing is the improper construction of portions and incorrect housing arrangements in the city. People are compelled to stay in old neighborhoods i.e. Nazimabad and Liaquatabad. This is because if they settle in far flung settlements, it will be extremely draining for them to reach their places of work while the population in these areas is growing exponentially. Since the city is devoid of a proper transport system that may carry the mass exodus from new settlements, people are building and purchasing portions of small houses in these old neighborhoods.
Furthermore, this project can reduce pollution and increase the efficiency of human resource as they keep them energized and emotionally charged.
For this project, policymakers do not have to re-invent the wheel. They just need to put in place a system that was functional decades back. Unlike the green line bus service and other such projects which also have many positives, this project will cover almost all populous neighborhoods of the city. People of Lyari, Nazimabad, Liaqutabad, Gulshan, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Shah Faisal Colony and adjoining areas of Shahrah-e-Faisal will be the ultimate beneficiaries.
That said, because of all above, reviving KCR is the need of the hour, which is a step in the right direction...
Ok, keep crying, infact cry me a river.