PESHAWAR
The Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will start a new Express Route (ER 12) from Shah Alam to Mall of Hayatabad on 10 January to meet the growing demand to facilitate the commuters of the capital city.
Initially 12 buses will be operationalized on the above-mentioned route, according to a statement issued here on Thursday.
A fleet of 62 news buses has arrived and after initializing the first 12 buses on ER-12, the remaining buses will be operationalized gradually in the coming weeks on current routes as well as new routes.
ER-12, will start from Shah Alam pul (bridge), enter the corridor at Malik Saad Station and will continue till Mall of Hayatabad.
This route will have a total of 11 stops including Shah Alam Bridge, Sewan, Bakhshu Bridge, Lande Sarak, Shaheed Tehseen Chowk, CharsaddaAdda, Bacha Khan Chowk, Khyber Bazar, Saddar, Peshawar University and Mall of Hayatabad.
This is going to be the first of 5 new routes which TransPeshawar had announced at the end of 2022. Apart from ER-12 these new routes include a feeder route from Mall of Hayatabad to Phase 6 terminal via phase 1 (DR-11), Chamkani to Malik Saad Shaheed through Ring Road (DR-4B), a suburban express route from Pabbi to Malik Saad Shaheed via Chamkani (SER -13) and Regi Model Town to Tehkal Payan (DR-14).
“Zu Peshawar is gaining continuous popularity due to its excellent service and affordable fares,” said Saddaf Kamil, Spokesperson for TransPeshawar. “To meet the growing demand from the people of Peshawar, the system is continuously expanding. Five new routes have been approved which will be operationalized one by one, in the next few weeks”.
Currently a feeder route (DR-3B) is operational from Shah AlamPul to Malik Saad Shaheed Station covering a total of 22 stations in between, including Shah Alampul, Wahid Garhi, Toda, Khazan, Faqir Abad, Sewan, Sugar Mill, NasapaBalla, Nasapa, Muslim Abad, BakhshuPul, Ibrahim Abad, Habib Abad, Shero Jhangi, LandeySarrak, Nishat Mill, Budhni Pool, Shaheed Tehseen Chowk, Charsadda Adda, Eid Gah, Shahi Bagh, Khyber Bazaar, and Bacha Khan Chowk and Malik Saad Shaheed.
This route transports about 17,000 passengers per day.
