United States of Punjab ?

[Jolie]

Re: United States of Punjab ?

@Med911

What exactly is the Bab-e-Peshawar… Isnt it another flyover? What is the benefit?

Whatever benefit a flyer over brings to Lahore and Karachi. KPK was getting a lot of flak for not doing any PMLN style ‘major’ and ‘tangible’ infrastructure project, so here it is. Other than, I’m not a local so can’t really comment on that issue.

Say what you will about Sharif and his brother, but efficient mass transit is not a luxury, its a necessity. You cant have a city without efficient transport. Peshawar, if its worthy of being called a city, needs a proper transport system that caters to the working middle class. They wouldnt be wasting money if the built a transport network, it would be the back bone on which the city builds.

KPK is a poor province, it can’t possibly think of spending 50 billion on a bus service for just a city! The government of KPK was thinking of launching its own significantly cheaper mass transit system but Federal government cleverly pitched Pakistan Railways against the provisional government in guise of reserving the route for the second Peshawar- Karachi rail track. So this project probably won’t ever see the daylight.

But luckily Peshawar has managed to curb majority of its traffic woes by improving the existing road network by bit of fixing here and there and introducing professional traffic wardens.

If it was that easy to get mass transit system approved from the centre then Karachi would have got a mass transit system many moons ago. No other city in Pakistan deserves a mass transit system more than Karachi.