Sharjeel Inam Memon, the provincial minister for Sindh’s transportation and mass transit system, announced the introduction of additional Karachi Pink Bus Service routes as well as the addition of more buses to routes currently in operation.
Details indicate that there is only one route that the Pink Bus Service now travels in Karachi, and that route travels from Model Colony to Tower through Shahrah-e-Faisal Road and II Chandigarh Road.
However, the Pink Bus Service will add more routes, including one from Power Chowrangi, North Karachi, to Indus Hospital, Korangi, via Nagan Chowrangi, Shafiq Mor, Gulshan Chowrangi, Johar Mor, Drig Road, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Shah Faisal Colony, Singer Chowrangi, and Korangi No. 5.
Pink Bus Service Routes Karachi
Route 1: This 29-kilometre-long route covers the busiest arterials of the city, passing through Shahrah-e-Faisal. It starts from Model Colony and passes through Malir halt, Drigh Road, Karsaz, Metropole and finally ends at Tower.
Route 2: This route is 32.9 kilometres long and starts from North Karachi, ending at Indus Hospital. Buses on this route pass through Nagan Chowrangi, NIPA, Shah Faisal Colony, and Singer Chowrangi.
Route 3: This 33km route, starting from Nagan Chowrangi turns to North Nazimabad Town, Civic Centre, National Stadium, and KPT Interchange before ending at Singer Chowrangi.
Route 4: Starting from North Karachi, this route passes through New Karachi, University Road, Motorway M9, Ayesha Manzil, Lalu Khait, Guru Mandir, Empress Market, Sindh High Court, II Chundrigar Road and ends at the dockyard.
Routes 5, 6, and 7 are not functional at the moment due to ongoing repair work on the roads.
Route 8: Designated for Larkana (intra-city).
Route 9: Starting from Shireen Jinnah Colony the route goes to Lyari via Boat Basin, Mai Kolachi, Native Jetty, and Mauripur Road.
Route 10: This route starts from Numaish Chowrangi and ends at Clock Tower, Clifton via MA Jinnah Road, Tower, II Chundrigar Road, Arts Council, Metropolitan Hotel, Marriott Hotel, Teen Talwar, Do Talwar, Abdullah Shah Ghazi and Dolmen Mall.
Route 11: This route takes Shahrah-e-Faisal and connects Gulshan-e-Hadeed to Tower
To accommodate more customers, additional Pink Bus Service buses will be added to the current route.
Pink Bus Service in Hyderabad
According to Minister for Information, Transport, and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam Memon, the Sindh government is planning to expand the public transportation service to Hyderabad, the province’s second-largest city, beginning on February 18. This follows the successful launch of the women-only “Pink Bus” in Karachi.
In addition, he disclosed that the Peoples Bus Service would begin operating in Sukkur on February 17 during a press conference he held in his office on Monday.
“Similarly, the government is going to induct more buses into the Pink Bus fleet in Karachi,” he said.
“Currently the Pink Bus service in Karachi runs only on one route — between Model Colony and Tower – and now we are going to inaugurate two more routes,” said Mr Memon.
He said all these routes would mainly benefit working women. These routes had been designed very carefully to provide fast and comfortable transport facility to a maximum number of women commuters, he added.
A second route would connect Power House Cho-wrangi in North Karachi with the Indus Hospital in Korangi covering Nagan Chowrangi, Shafiq Morr, Gulshan Chowrangi, Jau-har Morr, COD, Drigh Road, Sharea Faisal, Shah Faisal Colony, Singer Chow-rangi and Korangi No. 5.
The third route is between Numaish intersection and Seaview covering M.A. Jinnah Road, Zebunnisa Street, Metro-pole Hotel, Teen Talwar, Do Talwar, Abdu-llah Shah Ghazi Mazar, Dolmen Mall, McDonald’s and Clock Tower (Seaview).
The minister claimed that the chief minister of Sindh had discussions on expanding the Peoples Bus Service with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
The first electric bus service in the nation has already begun in Karachi, he added. He added that a sizable fleet of these vehicles had since arrived at the port and will shortly be introduced on new routes. The lack of gasoline needed by electric buses makes them environmentally favourable. As a result, these automobiles will aid in the reduction of pollutants, according to Mr. Memon.
