PhD Student in Transport Studies at Leeds. Usually tweeting about transport & current reads.
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Oh God, we are making the same mistakes again and again. The best thing which government could do to solve traffic congestion is do nothing. One of the reasons why we can not develop good density/city centers, is because of decisions like this. Raja Bazar initially had an
پیرودھائی جنرل بس اسٹینڈ سمیت تمام پبلک ٹرانسپورٹ کو رنگ روڈ راولپنڈی پر منتقل کیا جا رہا ہے۔
◀️اسلام آباد کی سبزی منڈی بھی رنگ روڈ پر شفٹ کی جائے گی۔
◀️فیض آباد، 26 نمبر چونگی اور دیگر تمام بس اڈے بھی منتقل ہوں گے۔
◀️آئندہ ہیوی ٹرانسپورٹ کو راولپنڈی شہر کے اندر داخلے کی اجازت نہیں ہو گی۔
◀️پیرودھائی بس اسٹینڈ حکومتِ پنجاب کی مکمل ملکیت میں آ جائے گا۔
◀️پیرودھائی سے راولپنڈی اور اسلام آباد کے لیے لوکل بس سروس چلائی جائے گی۔
◀️لوکل بسوں کا کرایہ 20 سے 50 روپے کے درمیان ہو گا۔
◀️مسافر ایک ہی بس سروس کے ذریعے شہر کے مختلف علاقوں تک جا سکیں گے۔
◀️پشاور سے آنے والی ٹرانسپورٹ کے لیے ممکنہ طور پر اسلام آباد ایئرپورٹ کے قریب اڈہ قائم کیا جائے گا۔
◀️پنجاب سے آنے والی تمام ٹرانسپورٹ رنگ روڈ پر جائے گی، چاہے موٹر وے سے آئے یا جی ٹی روڈ سے۔
◀️رنگ روڈ موٹر وے اور جی ٹی روڈ دونوں کو آپس میں جوڑتی ہے۔
◀️آزاد کشمیر سے آنے والی ٹریفک (براستہ مری) کو بہارہ کہو کے قریب روکا جائے گا۔
◀️آزاد کشمیر کے دیگر اضلاع سے آنے والی ٹریفک روات رنگ روڈ استعمال کرے گی۔
◀️اس وقت رنگ روڈ روات سے نئے اسلام آباد ایئرپورٹ تک مکمل کی جا رہی ہے۔
◀️جب رنگ روڈ ایئرپورٹ سے بہارہ کہو تک مکمل ہو جائے گی تو بہارہ کہو کی ٹریفک بھی روات کے ذریعے رنگ روڈ پر منتقل کر دی جائے گی۔
◀️مجموعی طور پر یہ منصوبہ ٹریفک مینجمنٹ کے لحاظ سے بہترین پلاننگ قرار دیا جا رہا ہے۔
public transport systems that there is a single core, where most trips converge to and the basic concept of a city is that people from other areas, including other cities and the peripheries, interact with each other and enjoy benefits of agglomeration.
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Were it to break, one can get a new one from the market
This earthen cup of mine is better than Jamshed's goblet
اور بازار سے لے آئے اگر ٹوٹ گیا
ساغر جم سے مرا جام سفال اچھا ہے
- مرزا غالب
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to tear down and a time to build; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance;
He has also set eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing can be taken from it. - Ecclesiastes
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Had the misfortune yesterday to use @inDrive last night. I decided to cancel the ride given the sheer incompetence of the driver only to receive a physical threat from him via text (attached below). It's one thing to be unprofessional but to be a deliquant on top of that really
Sema is only for the restless spirit-so jump up quickly. Why do
you wait?
Do not sit here with your own thoughts - if you are a human go to the Beloved.
Do not say, "Perhaps He does not want me."
What business has a thirsty man with such words?
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In every city with a metro system, 70%-80% of all trips are less than 10 km. Metros start to save time on a door-to-door basis for trips longer than 12-15 km. This is the primary reason why metro systems will have low ridership.
Azam Ali retweeted
We were very fortunate to have had the opportunity to discuss Edward Said's book Covering Islam, during Bookhour at @atomcamp. During the session we touched upon the many themes of Said's seminal work and how they still remain relevant in today's geopolitics.
The best thing which bureaucrats could do to solve traffic congestion is do nothing. One of the reasons why we can not develop good density/city centers, is because of decisions like this. Rajaz Bazar initially had an intercity bus station; however, "experts" decided
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to shift the station to Saddar, which lead to increase in commercial area next to Saddar, development of another urban core, and in the long term the complete decrepitation of Raja Bazar. It is crucial for efficient public transport systems that there is a single core, where
Nothing is more miserable, says one, than he who ranges over all things, and dives even into things below the earth, and strives by conjectures to discover what is in the souls of others around him, and yet is not sensible of this, that ’tis sufficient
for a man to dwell and converse with that divinity which is within him, and pay it the genuine worship.
Truly, sometimes reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is equivalent to reading to Al Ghazali or Bulleh Shah. As Kabir Das says,