Orange Train to be connected 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 ichelson 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.