CNG closure: Commuters face problems

Islamabad

Public transporters plying their vehicles on various routes from Rawalpindi to Islamabad have increased fares without any official notification, due to non-availability of CNG.

A large number of people commute between Rawalpindi and Islamabad on public transport and the unannounced increase in fares will add to their woes. Transporters are thus using the absence of CNG as their biggest excuse to self-raising the ‘already too high’ fares and totally ignoring the fare list.

The literally ‘looting exercise’ is going unchecked by the concerned authority which has turned a deaf ear over the matter, which is further encouraging transporters to do what they want to do.

The more pathetic situation arises during the office timings when transporters filter passengers and only give space to those who travel nearby destinations.Muhammad Shahbaz Khan, a passenger waiting for a van at Rehmanabad stop told this agency that it is a routine practice that transporters do not give him seat from Rehmanabad to Secretariat and vice versa.

“I am a government employee and have to travel between the two cities every day. Conductors do not let me in the van because I have to go to Islamabad and in the afternoon same again,” he complained.

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