BRT project in its final stages of completion: minister

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Shaukat Yousafzai has said that Peshawar BRT is in the final stages of completion, civil work and building work have been completed on February 15 and 32 stations including command and control system have been handed over to Trans-Peshawar, the operator of the project.

The minister said that electricity power connections have been completed, ticket booths are being built and 50 buses are being driven daily from Hayatabad to Chamkani for rehearsal drive so that if any error is left then that can be removed.

Talking to the media here, the minister said that it was a big news for Peshawar that the BRT project was going to be completed under the leadership of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan. The opposition has strongly criticized the BRT that it has corruption and it cannot be completed but by the grace of Allah, the project is about to be completed and would become operational in April this year.

He said that work on the ITS installation is under way which will be completed by the end of March. He said that BRT was planned to facilitate poor people in traveling and we will invite those who criticize the project to travel with us in it in April. Shaukat Yousafzai criticized former Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif for his tweet in which he said that the cost of BRT is higher than Lahore, Multan and Islamabad metro and said that if Shahbaz Sharif is true then he should prove it. Peshawar BRT is a Third Generation Metro while Lahore is the Second Generation Metro and facilities are also higher in BRT but still BRT, per kilometer is cheaper than Lahore Metro.