Peshawar BRT to cost low than Lahore bus project: Shaukat Yousafzai.

PESHAWAR -- Minister for Information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Shaukat Yousafzai on Friday announced that the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) project would be made functional by April this year, media reported.

'We will complete the project in March and it would cost Rs 35 billion,' he said adding that despite being a third-generation project, it has cost low as compared to the Lahore BRT project which cost upto Rs 40 billion in 2011.

The other construction to be made within the BRT premises including a commercial plaza and other building structures would add Rs 35 billion more to the BRT Peshawar cost, making it a project of Rs 70 billion,' he said.

We have directed to release four billion more for the project in order to ensure that work on the project is not halted, he said.

He further said that they had purchased buses worth upto Rs 8.5 billion to be run on the BRT track.

On February 04...