Commissioner says work on BRT Malir to Numaish corridor to start this month.

Commissioner Navid Ahmed Shaikh while presiding over a meeting on Tuesday said the construction of a corridor from Malir Halt to Numaish, under the Red Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project was expected to start this month.

In the meeting, called to review the arrangements for the construction, transport secretary Shariq Ahmed called to the mind that the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council had approved the project so that it had two corridors - one extending across a length of 27 kilomteres from Malir Halt to Numaish and another between Numaish to Merewether Tower - and over Rs70 billion had been allocated for the scheme.

Stating that the construction of the corridor connecting Malir Halt and Numaish was expected to start this month, the secretary further said 16 stations would be built along the corridor, which would run through Model Colony, Safoora Goth and Nipa, and pass by the Met Office, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Safari Park, Federal Urdu University of Science and Technology, Baitul Mukarram Mosque, Civic Centre, Askari park, Dawood...