Women-specific 'Pink Taxi' to start in Karachi soon: Sharjeel Memon
Pakistan
Sharjeel Memon said the service would start in Karachi soon by Sindh Mass Transit Authority.
KARACHI (Dunya News) - Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam Memon on Tuesday said that an electric taxi service would start in Karachi soon by Sindh Mass Transit Authority with the launch of women-specific ‘Pink Taxi’ in the first phase.
The minister, while talking to the media at the Sindh Assembly, informed that technical approval of the project had been granted under which the electric vehicles equipped with monitoring systems and cameras would provide cheap, safe and comfortable service to women commuters in Karachi.
In the first of the two phases, the service would start with the pink taxi, exclusively allocated for women, while drivers of the service would also be women.
In the second phase, the blue service would be rolled out, he added.
On directives of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, measures were being taken for improving the public transport system in the province, he said, also adding that 10 acres of land had been allocated for the Red Line BRT Bus Depot in Ala Din Park.
