{"id":64191,"date":"2025-01-31T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=64191"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:35:59","slug":"punjab-cm-maryam-inaugurates-electric-bus-service-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lahore\/punjab-cm-maryam-inaugurates-electric-bus-service-in-lahore\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM Maryam inaugurates electric bus service in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has inaugurated the province&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad\/first-shipment-of-146-electric-buses-arrives-in-islamabad\/\">Electric Vehicle<\/a> (EV) bus service in Lahore as a pilot project.<\/p>\n<p>Maryam Nawaz was briefed by Provincial Transport Minister Bilal Akbar as she rode in the electric bus to make a detailed inspection, CM Punjab spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The electric buses, which arrived from China, have a capacity of 80 passengers with 30 seats and also have a ramp and seats reserved for special people.<\/p>\n<p>The electric bus has a GPS location recorder, Wi-Fi, UPS port, and anti-slip sheet on the floor among other facilities. The bus will hold separate sections for males and females along with the installation of cameras to prevent incidents of harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The government has set up nine charging stations for electric buses, which will be able to cover 250 kilometers on one charge.<\/p>\n<p>As per details, during the first phase, 27 electric buses will be operated on the 21-kilometer route, which will run between the Railway Station and Green Town covering Queens Road, Mazang, Ferozepur Road, Campus Bridge, Ichhra, and Canal Road.<\/p>\n<p>The route, which will be fully operational, in mid-February will facilitate 17,000 passengers daily.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, the spokesperson to the Chief Minister said that 42 state-of-the-art bus shelters will be established along the route, where a bus will arrive every 9 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also decided to introduce a special app to track the electric buses and passengers will have the option to pay from digital wallets or cards. For more convenience, Universal transport cards will also be issued.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz instructed concerned authorities to review the installation of solar fans and water coolers at bus stands along with the Safe City cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has inaugurated the province&#8217;s first Electric Vehicle (EV) bus service in Lahore as a pilot project. Maryam Nawaz was briefed by Provincial Transport Minister Bilal Akbar as she rode in the electric bus to make a detailed inspection, CM Punjab spokesperson said in a statement. The electric buses, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":64192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14810],"tags":[12967,26201],"class_list":["post-64191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","tag-chief-minister-maryam-nawaz","tag-electric-bus-service-lahore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64193,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64191\/revisions\/64193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}