RAWALPINDI: Metro Bus Service resumed its operation between Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Saturday after 4 days of closure attributable to protests of PTI staff and supporters over arrest of Imran Khan in Al-Qadir Belief case.
The bus service stopped its operation on Might 9 and the protesters destroyed bus stations of Faizabad, Shamsabad and set the sixth Street bus station on hearth.
Punjab Masstransit Authority estimated preliminary injury value Rs40 million for Metro bus stations and elevated highway and requested Rawalpindi Improvement Authority (RDA) and Nespak to look at the depth of injury to constructions and pillars of elevated highway and bus stations and inform the authority as quickly as potential .
speaking to DaybreakSyed Ozair Shah, Common Supervisor of Punjab Masstransit Authority, stated that the letter had been written to MetroBusproject Advisor Nespak and Rawalpindi Improvement Authority to kind a committee of specialists and engineers to evaluate the construction of the elevated highway and busstations broken throughout violent protests of PTI on Might 9.
“Within the preliminary survey, PMA discovered that elevators, escalators, cables and ticket stations and bus stations at sixth Street have been severely broken and the preliminary estimated loss stood at Rs40 million. Nevertheless, we worry that the fireplace injury to the pillars and the construction of the elevated highway,” he stated.
Nevertheless, the RDA didn’t kind a committee of specialists but to find out the injury to metro bus stations and elevated roads and ready for the Punjab authorities’s instructions.
RDA Director Common Saif Anwar Jappa stated that the RDA would begin the work to look at the construction and pillars of Metro Bus Stations and elevated roads on the directives of the Punjab authorities.
Shumaila Mohsin, Supervisor of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Service, stated that the bus service resumed after acquiring safety clearance from the district administrations of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
She stated the sixth Street Bus station could be skipped throughout operation of buses between Rawalpindi and Islamabad and passengers had requested to make use of Shamsabad Bus Station and Rehmanabad bus stations as an alternative of sixth Street.
Metro Bus Service was suspended on the directives of deputy commissioner of Rawalpindi for safety causes.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might 14th, 2023