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Lahore Bus Rapid Transit

System (Metro)

A Report on Project

Management

16-Jun-14

Faraz Rasheed

2011-NCA-Arch-006


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BRTS LAHORE

A.0 Project Mission

Lahore is a provincial metropolis and its population was nearing

10 million (according to Government of Punjab). The people

belonging to low and middle income segments of society were

facing great difficulty in commuting within the City while highincome groups were also forced to use their cars as no decent

public transport was available, therefore a system of rapidly

transacting people at mass scale was direly felt necessary, hence

government took stance to build BRTS Lahore. The project initially

was supposed to be as Underground tubed Train system that

would go around entire city along primary arteries.


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B.0 Work Breakdown Phase

The project of Lahore metro bus was initially a mere inspiration

from Metro BRTS of Istambul, bus originally the model has beenadapted from Transmillenia which was constructed during circa

2000 AD, in Bogota, Columbia. The really sad part of the work

breakdown phase was that, there was no feasibility report

conducted, neither Environmental Impact Assessment reports

were filed nor there were any public meeting help by the

company or the government with any of the project stakeholders.

The Design was proposed as an entire new lane for BRTS Lahore

and a lane would initially lead from Chouwng to LDA Avenue and

hence making a triangle and would end up near Jallo making a

triangle and enclosing city. But due to lack of budget authorities

decided to make it in two rather three phases, the phase one

would go from Shahdara to Gajjomatta, and phase two from Kal-

Shah-Kakoo to Raiwind road (Thokar Niaz Beg) and phase threefrom New airport to Bund Road.


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The Engineers came across another big problem of availability of

space. Since widening of road was not appropriate solution hence

where felt necessary in densely populated urban fabric, the route

of the BRTS has been lifted (Called Elevated Track)

C.0 Scope of Project

The Lahore Metro BUS is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in

Lahore, Pakistan. The first section, which consists of a 27-

kilometres long route and 29 bus stations between Gajumata to

Shahadra was opened in February 2013. The route covers

residential and commercial localities along the citys main artery.

Although metro bus of Lahore is provided separate lane but a

chunk of the route is elevated as well. The Punjab Government

broke ground on the Bus Rapid Transit System megaproject in

April 2012.This infrastructure with a linear running road includes a

12.5km flyover constructed within the busiest areas of the city.

The pedestrian bridges and escalators were also constructed

along with the BRTS.


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D.0 Budget & Construction

THE Punjab government spent Rs 29,821.762 million on

completion of the metro bus project through its own resources tofacilitate the general public. Punjab Planning and Development

Board Chairman Javaid Aslam told this on the occasion of

inaugural ceremony of the Metro Bus Service, Lahore. The

government official stated that this system was built on a 27-

kilometre route which was recommended by SYSTRA as most

feasible rout for light rail operation. BRTS for Lahore has been

completed at only 16%-20% of the cost for a light rail network.

The total cost of BRTS, named as Metro Bus Lahore, was

less than Rs 30 billion. this project was divided into 11 packages

and completed at a total cost of Rs 29,821.762 million. The

approved packages included Rs 5,411.075 million for Youhanabad

to Kalma Chowk, Rs 5,482.902 million for Kalma Chowk to

Qurtaba Chowk, Rs 5,148.948 million for Qurtaba Chowk to MAO

College, Rs 3,411.839 million for MAO College to Bhaati Chowk, Rs

2,590.782 million for Texali Chowk to Shahdara Morr, Rs 849.691

million for Additional Bridge along Lahore Bridge,

Rs 1,930.017 million for Gajju Matta to Youhanabad, Rs3,227.176 for Erection of Escalators and Platform Screen Doors, Rs

1,026.193 million for Construction of Bus Depot and Rs 743.139

million for Automated Fare Collection and Bus Scheduling.


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E.0 Critics & BRTS Lahore

The Metro BUS has its flaws. BRT corridors need to be part of a

larger transit system with feeder services. It has also beendesigned independent of land-use patterns. Environmental

feasibilities, a pre-requisite, were completed halfway through the

construction. And, the unending stretch of iron bars does look

ugly. Unfortunately, they are imperative to enforce the

segregated right-of-way, and avoid accidents involving

adventurous citizens crossing the passage. Once we all learn to be

law-abiding, the iron bars could be replaced with low-rise kerb

stones.

The Metrobus, therefore, has to be seen as such a first

experiment that would inform future urban mass transit in

Pakistan. It has been expensive, but like all Greenfield projects, it

had to be built from scratch

Faraz Rasheed Ch

2011-006

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