Punjab Transport Department has badly failed to implement the transport policy in the provincial capital. Consequently, passengers have to face a lot of difficulties like over-loading, passengers scuffling with each other.
Jam packed rush in the buses as well as at the non availability of seating arrangements at the bus stops, humiliation of women passengers, non co-operative behaviour of the conductors toward the travellers.
Punjab government provided bank loan facilities to the private transport companies to run the public transport in the city aiming to provide better travelling facilities to the masses. Punjab government banned the Hi-ace wagons, which were running on the various routes of the city.
The sources told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that, approximately 860 public buses were running on the various roads of the Lahore with the financial assistance of different banks. Two private transport companies had been declared defaulters and they had closed their offices and transport service after being bankrupt and their 40 buses are not on the roads now a days, the sources disclosed.
The sources said that within one week, two more private transport companies Niazi Transport Company and Makks Transport Company would be declared bank defaulters and 60 buses owned by them, 25 of Niazi and 35 of Makks would be ceased, the sources claimed. The sources mentioned that while making the transport policy, it was decided that after every five minutes, a bus would be run on every public route just to provide extra ordinary facilities to the passengers through the Urban Transport System (UTS), which consisted of 07 private transport companies.
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