PESHAWAR (The Thursday Times) — Peshawar’s bus rapid transit network will open its 20th route on Monday, a service along the Southern Ring Road linking Chamkani with the Mall of Hayatabad, TransPeshawar said.
Route DR-17 will have 27 stops. The first bus will leave Chamkani at 7am and the first from the Mall of Hayatabad at 8:20am, and the service will run until 7pm, with 15 buses at first running every 15 minutes, according to a statement the company issued on Saturday.
The stops include Sardar Garhi, Pir Zakori Bridge, the cattle market, Hazar Khwani, Sarhad University, Pishtakhara Chowk, HBK Arena, the PDA toll plaza, and Hayatabad Phase 3. TransPeshawar said the route would make it easier for people living along the Ring Road, as well as students and workers, to reach homes, colleges, and markets on that side of the city.
With DR-17, the Zu Peshawar network will run 20 routes, 11 of them feeder routes that leave the main corridor, the company said.
More buses on busy routes
Zu Peshawar has also added 25 new 12-metre buses to routes ER-01 and SR-02, raising the number of buses on those two routes from 59 to 84. The operator said the extra buses were meant to cut waiting times and ease overcrowding.
The BRT opened in August 2020 along an east-west corridor through the city. In 2022 it received a gold rating under the international BRT Standard.
