The Karachi Electric Bus Service will resume operation from next week after a five-days suspension that led the passengers into difficulties.The Electric vehicle was facing the threat of a complete shutdown as buses running on two of its three routes were suddenly suspended, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.Now, the authorities have informed that Route EV-03 (Malir Cantt to Numaish via Johar University Road) will resume its operations from Monday, 30th October 2023.
Earlier, EV-2 and EV-3 services were suspended because of the unavailability of charging and only one route was functional.The charge stations were reportedly unable to charge which led the situation to the suspension of buses on two routes.
Thousands of people traveling by these electric buses started their week with the shock that the buses they were waiting for were no longer availableHowever, in a fresh development, it was informed on the social media page of people’s bus services that EV-3 (Malir Cantt to Numaish via Johar University Road) will resume its operations from Monday.It was not announced when the EV-2 route would become operational.
EVs were launched under the project of People Bus Services by the Sindh government in June 2023 and were running only three routes.
