The Orange Line Metro Train, Pakistan’s first state of the art metro train, is finally on the tracks — inaugurated on Sunday by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. The train runs with a frequency of five minutes; and a single train, having five bogies, can carry one thousand people, 300 of whom will have seat available. The Lahore metro train is indeed one-of-its-kind thing in Pakistan, but it’s exceedingly big a piece for our purse. The project does not go in sync with the general infrastructure development in the country, and stands starkly alone like a plush mansion amid shanties. For a country where service delivery, concerning health and education in particular, is taken for granted, such a gigantic project runs the risk of turning into a white elephant.

Source: The Express Tribune October 27, 2020 03:45 UTC