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Article: Megalopolis Karachi still goes with outdated public transport system.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- September 7, 2008
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KARACHI, September 07 (PPI) : Karachi, with 19million plus population, is termed worlds second largest city proper behind Mumbai, India, but in terms of civic facilities especially urban public transport, Karachi is still like an under-developed, backward and uncivilized town. It is a disgusting scene to watch old, rusty, smoke emitting, dangerously overcrowded buses and minibuses, with passengers even sitting on their roofs, running recklessly fast on the city roads. Karachi is perhaps the only mega urban city of the world, where public transport vehicles could be found painted with every colour of the rainbow, where bus drivers and conductors do not care wearing a proper ...