A bus crosses BRT’s Chamkani station, Peshawar, during a test run. — Photo by Shahbaz Butt
PESHAWAR: When Mukhtiar Ahmed heard that a new public transport system with air-conditioned buses was coming to Peshawar, he worried his customers would desert the beat-up people carrier he drove for a living.
“I was fearful that my old Ford wagon plying the same route would no longer be attractive to passengers,” Ahmed, 42, told the
Thomson Reuters Foundation.
He estimated that the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, announced four years ago, would take away about 40 per cent of the business independent bus owners like him relied on.