Self-adopted rules by transporters annoy commuters

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - Islamabad—he self-adopted rules by the drivers and conductors of public transports are causing immense inconvenience to commuters traveling between the twin cities daily.

The commuters said that the conductors of public transport preferred passengers wanted to go for short distance and creating problems unnecessarily for passengers. “Thousands of Rawalpindi residents have their jobs in the capital and have to commute by public transport daily but the approach of public transporters a main source of irritation for commuters”, said a commuter

The commuters traveling through Route No 1 wagons complained that passengers wanted to go for long distance face enormous problems to board into the wagon.

The situation for passengers traveling on Route No 21 and 23 are not much different as the transporters do not complete their route in the night and in rainy season. On the other hand the Route No 101 has become risk for commuters as in most of the cases, they have not choice to board out-dated buses in an extremely dangerous fashion.

The buses are in worst condition as technically they are not fit to harbor commuters more than its seating capacity while the owners of the buses not even carried out monthly inspection, including brake, engine and Tie Rod.—nline