Public Transport of Karachi City:

Metropolitan City’s citizens are in trouble!

Karachi is a metropolitan city. No doubt it is economical hub and the biggest city of Pakistan. Since it is the biggest city of Pakistan it is one of the biggest cities of the world. It is Pakistan’s one of the leading industrial cities and the capital of Sindh too.

It is fully congested and thick populated city therefore it is suffering from many issues and problems. Here millions of people travel by bikes, millions of people travel by their own conveyances and a huge number of Karachi citizen travel by public transports. In a manner of saying there are many buses and mini buses which people travel by. But it is a bitter truth that people are suffering from the shortage of transports. Numbers of the passengers are far higher than the numbers of buses.

In the morning and evening time passengers gather at the bus stops to jump into the bus, hang on the bus and even many of them hang on the doors on their one foot. This could cause nasty accidents. Apart of this many passengers remain standing on their stops waiting for another bus as a result they fail to reach their jobs on time consequently they have to face the salary deductions. In the morning and evening time a huge crowd of passengers suffer in buses. The crowd reflects honey comb in the buses.

The buses are fully packed to the capacity and this becomes really very difficult for the passengers to get on and get off the bus. Passengers thrash each other to make room for them. In addition to this men break into the lady’s compartment and travel. Actually they are also compelled to do so because they have to reach their destinations on time.

Time is money. If timely work is executed then every city develops itself like other developed cities of the world. This is also one of the reasons that Karachi city is not a developed city despite of being the biggest city of our beloved motherland Pakistan.

It is necessary to highlight how women suffer and face difficulties while traveling in buses. They feel troubles and problems to catch the bus because their compartment is already packed to the capacity with men. Moreover buses’ drivers mostly don’t stop buses for women. It is really the point to be pondered over.

Time is money but for the buses’ drivers and conductors it is nothing. They keep standing at their particular stops for long time and waste their and passengers’ precious time. Passengers reach their homes very late at night so they don’t have time to do any social activities or social work as a result good society is not founded.

Sometimes it’s seen the drivers or buses’ conductors and passengers quarrel each other because of extra fares. Additionally very bad behavior of the conductors is also the cause of quarrels between them and passengers. They consider passengers as cattle and some rude or rowdy passengers consider conductors and drivers as their servants. Well, it takes two to quarrel. Intolerance is at the peak. If somebody is pushed, touched or thrashed a little, they start quarreling and calling names. Nobody possesses tolerance.

Less numbers of the buses as compare to plenty of passengers are causing serious problems. Who will resolve and sort out these problems. Of course the concerned authorities must constitute a team to ponder over this matter and take some bold and effective steps to get over these problems.

Numbers of the passengers cannot be lessened but new buses and new mini buses ought to be provided to Karachi for the sake of its citizens.