Lahore Metrobus لاہور میٹرو بس
let me help everyone here instead of all twisting their necks :
The babus drive cars so there are four lanes for them and a piddly little footpath for the 90% unwashed awam.Footpath is 2000mm i.e. 2 meters i.e. 6.6 feet. Too narrow still...kind of like an "excuse-me foot path"! Dont know what that is...that is a footpath of an excuse!
LAHORE, Dec 6: Keeping in view the increasing traffic load and frequent jams at Qartaba Chowk (Mozang Chungi) at the juncture of Ferozepur and Lytton roads, the Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (Tepa) has been given a go-ahead by the Lahore Development Authority to construct a flyover there.Close the bahawalpur road crossing, build an underpass from jail road to queens road and a roundabout on the chowk for smooth flow. Thats it!
2m footpaths on both sides are more than enough. They just need to save it from encroachments. Most footpaths in Europe are 1m wide.The scale of dimensions of the lanes and foot paths is weird...appears to be in mm...millimeters! Not cm, not m but "mm"! I didnt know they worked to millimeter precision in civil works and that too in Pakistan?!
Footpath is 2000mm i.e. 2 meters i.e. 6.6 feet. Too narrow still...kind of like an "excuse-me foot path"! Dont know what that is...that is a footpath of an excuse!
People have habit of whining and comparing to EU/US even though we are a third world country and progressing slowly towards a better infrastructure.2m footpaths on both sides are more than enough. They just need to save it from encroachments. Most footpaths in Europe are 1m wide.
People have habit of whining and comparing to EU/US even though we are a third world country and progressing slowly towards a better infrastructure.
2m footpaths on both sides are more than enough. They just need to save it from encroachments. Most footpaths in Europe are 1m wide.
Not sure what parts of Europe you have seen but having a 3m footpath is a norm for most countries which focus on pedestrians.
Its not about footpath width, but the focus on pedestrians and how easy it is for them to naviate and get from A to B. Given the number of pedestrians we have, having small footpaths along with the encroachments they eventually see are not a convenience.
I simply know that our planners and engineers do a piss poor job and pedestrian comfort safety or alternative means of travel are never a focus. the holistic picture is always missing.
Being a 3rd world or developing country is no excuse in this day and age.
:lol: brother both Gawadar and Bullet Train Projects were brainchild of PML-N regime back in 90's. I'm thankful to Musharaf that he completed Gawadar Project but unfortunate part that he couldn't even start development on bullet train even he got 9 years tenure. Now PML-N has promised to fulfill their own initiated project of bullet train if they get chance of winning next elections as they gave us Motorway. So let's have good hopes for Pakistan developments in future insha Allah !Bullet train for Lahore, Rawalpindi approved
Published: Monday, 31 July, 2006, 12:59 PM Doha Time
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has approved introduction of “bullet train� between Rawalpindi and Lahore.
Federal Minister for Railways Shaikh Rashid Ahmad said the speed of the bullet train would be 250km per hour and it would reach Lahore in one hour and 15 minutes.
Ahmad said a separate track on standard gauge would be laid along the existing tracks but will have fully fenced to avoid any interference. The feasibility study for this project would be completed in four months, he said.
Musharraf had desired to inaugurate the bullet train himself, the minister said.
Meanwhile, speaking at the opening of the high-speed passenger coach workshop at the Carriage Factory in Islamabad, Musharraf said Pakistan would be converted into a trade corridor by linking Gwadar deep seaport with the regional countries through an efficient communication infrastructure including rail network.
The opening of the workshop has taken Pakistan Railways towards self-reliance and modernisation.
The capacity of the factory to fabricate, renovate, rehabilitate and converse passenger coaches has now been increased from 150 to 225 coaches annually.
Referring to Pakistan’s geo-strategic location, Musharraf said Pakistan served as an economic and trade hub to the Central Asian Republics, the Gulf, the Middle East, Western China and South Asia.
The railways will be upgraded and modernised along with efficient network of roads and ports for promoting regional trade, he declared.
Earlier, Ahmad informed the president about the future expansion plans and modernisation of Pakistan Railways including laying of rail tracks linking Gwadar with Quetta and onward to Chaman on Iranian border and Spin Boldak on the Afghan border at an estimated cost of Rs75bn.
The president gave his approval to a pre-feasibility study for laying rail tracks from Havelian to Khunjrab Pass to be conducted by a German firm to link China with the Gwadar Deep Seaport. – Internews
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/arti...41&parent_id=23
+1Lets keep thinking like a third world country. Inshallah we will stay one for the next hundred years then.
We dont care wht the heck is going on - we need to develop fast - China is making the worlds talest building in 90 days!! We need to make Kalabagh and Bhasha Dam in 45 days !!!