Karachi’s Orange Line buses to hit the roads tomorrow

KARACHI: The Orange Line Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) project is ready for public operations on Saturday (tomorrow), ARY News reported on Friday.

The Orange Line BRT project was renamed after the late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi as Abdul Sattar Edhi Line by the Sindh government in May.

Sindh Information and Transport Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon announced that the public operations of Karachi’s Abdul Sattar Edhi BRT will start tomorrow. The Orange Line BRT was a project of the Sindh government for the people of Karachi, he added.

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The provincial minister said that thousands of commuters will be benefitted by the public transport project on a daily basis.

On September 3, Memon said that the trial run of Orange Line buses from Orangi Town to North Nazimabad Edhi Green Line station was started and the passengers were getting free service during the trial run.

Test drive is continue of Orange Line BRT ( Abdul Sattar Edhi Line ). People of karachi will be able to use this service from 10th September. Inshallah transport department government of sindh will bring more new projects of transport for the people of sindh. pic.twitter.com/5izDmiKMMo

— Sharjeel Inam Memon (@sharjeelinam) September 3, 2022

The Orange Line corridor is 3.88 kilometres long and provides connectivity from Orangi Town to the Board Office intersection. It has five stations while its depot has the capacity to park 30 buses. It is likely to get a daily ridership of 50,000 passengers.

The project was launched by former Sindh chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah in June 2016 to facilitate about 50,000 residents of Orangi Town. The project was supposed to be completed within a year since its groundbreaking in 2016.