{"id":95566,"date":"2025-12-28T18:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=95566"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:41:51","slug":"routes-announced-for-karachis-double-decker-bus-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/routes-announced-for-karachis-double-decker-bus-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Routes announced for Karachi\u2019s double-decker bus service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Karachi will induct five diesel-fueled double-decker buses and 34<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/environment-department-bans-punjab-university-buses-emitting-smoke\/\"> electric buses<\/a> in its public transport system in January next year, Sindh provincial government sources told a news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Sindh government has earlier imported a total of 39 buses from China costing Rs. 3 billion. The imported fleet includes five double-decker buses and 34 electric buses. The vehicles have all reached the city of Karachi and are currently being cleared at the Karachi Port Trust.<\/p>\n<p>As per the authorities, the launch of these buses will take place on the roads of the city after the clearance procedure. According to the Sindh Mass Transit Authority, the double-decker buses will run on the route of Shahrah-e-Faisal between Model Colony and Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Each double-decker can transport a maximum of 115 to 120 passengers, in addition to having air-conditioning. It also has adjustable rooftop sections, where in case of rainy or summer weather, the section can stay closed, while in fair weather, it will be opened.<\/p>\n<p>Sindh Transport Minister, Sharjeel Inam Memon, is set to officially launch the new vehicles at an event to be arranged during the launching phase, scheduled to occur around January.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of double-decker buses brings back the service to Karachi after many decades, as the city operated these buses last in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Karachi will induct five diesel-fueled double-decker buses and 34 electric buses in its public transport system in January next year, Sindh provincial government sources told a news agency. The Sindh government has earlier imported a total of 39 buses from China costing Rs. 3 billion. The imported fleet includes five double-decker buses and 34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":48225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31775,16400],"class_list":["post-95566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-double-decker-bus","tag-electric-buses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95566","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95567,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95566\/revisions\/95567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}