Lahore: Lahore Transport Company (LTC) Chairman Dr Shahid Siddique has stated that the transport service would receive 100 electric buses within month, a news source reported on September 30. He added that the provision of the vehicles would facilitate the development of inter-city transport system.
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He added that Federal Minister for Science Fawad Chaudhry had assured him regarding the provision of 100 buses for Lahore under the federal government’s new electric vehicle policy. Providing further details of the initiative, the LTC Chairman revealed that these buses would run on the 17 LTC routes which were closed nearly 10 month ago.
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Now these new buses will provide transport facility to the locals who have been facing difficult in intra-city public transport including the students who didn’t have means of transport following the lifting of restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, he added.