Orange Train to be linked with metro bus

LAHORE

For achieving the objectives of Mass Transit System in the provincial metropolis, the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train will be connected with the Lahore Metro Bus System (Green Line) as well as the Lahore Railway Station by constructing two special walkways for pedestrians.

Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister and Steering Committee for the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project (LOMTP) Chairman Kh Ahmad Hassaan said this on Friday while talking to the media. He said that Lahore Development Authority (LDA) would execute the project at a cost of Rs 2.75 billion.

He said that an underpass would be constructed for connecting the underground Anarkali Station of Orange Line Metro Train, being constructed at Jain Mandir, with the MAO College station of Lahore Metro Bus. Pedestrians will be able to embark or disembark from one mode of transport for getting ride on the other one by using the walkway, he maintained.

Khwaja Hassaan added that a 40 feet elevated walkulator (moving walkway) will be installed for connecting Lahore Railway Station with the Bohrwala Chowk Station of Orange Line Metro Train at Nichelson Road.

“Passengers intended to move between these two locations will not have to walk even for one step for the purpose,” he said, adding that they would be able to go from one point to the other just by standing on this moving walkulator, he said.

He concluded that LDA had invited applications for prequalification of engineering firms and contractors, willing to execute the project, by September 9, 2017.

dengue: On the directions of the chief minister, Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Health Kh Imran Nazir and Health Secretary Ali Jan Khan have approached the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and conveyed the offer of the Punjab chief minister to extend all-out cooperation to overcome the dengue epidemic in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

According to a handout, media reports regarding spread of dengue in KP province were aired in which the local people were requesting the Punjab chief minister for sending medical teams to control the epidemic there. On which, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif directed Health Minister Kh Imran Nazir to contact the KP government and offer them cooperation to overcome the disease. 

Kh Imran Nazir contacted the KP Health Department. Health Secretary Ali Jan telephoned KP Health Secretary Abid Majid and offered all-out cooperation in this regard. Kh Imran Nazir said the Punjab Health Department was ready to extend all kind of support to KP government in this hour of need. 

The minister nominated Primary and Secondary Health Department Additional Secretary Technical Dr Asim Altaf as focal person to coordinate with KP Health Department. 

statement flayed: Pakistan People's Party Senator Rubina Khalid has criticised a statement of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan against PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Senator Rubina Khalid said that Imran Khan had to be accountable for the tears shed by the mother of Mishaal Khan.

PTI is protecting its councilor who is accused of killing Mishaal Khan, she alleged. Senator Rubina said that Imran Khan had destroyed the traditions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and contaminated the politics with his abusive language. He was busy in musical show in Islamabad when the blood of innocent children of Army Public School was being spilled. Imran Khan and politics do not go together, she concluded.