Capital’s rich village has poor transportation system
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| Photo by SALMAN MUSHTAQ for The Spokesman |
ISLAMABAD: Saidpoor, historically a rich village, is located at the foothill of Margalla near F-6 Sector where a few years back the village was renovated into a model one with major development carried out by the civic authority. Since, a number of posh hotel chains have opened up; however, the residents are still deprived of adequate transportation facilities.
The population consisting almost 3,000 people is not provided any direct route from their town to the major markets of the capital like Aabpara, G-7, G-8, and most interestingly Jinnah Super which located very next to this village, makes the situation regrettable. Most of the people in the rural community are doing low income jobs and every morning they have to go to the capital city for their work, for which they need to change two to three public transportation vehicles to reach their work place on time which irks the movers with a loss of time and money.
Rustam Ali, a resident of the model village, told The Spokesman that a lot of students and working people like him were living in this area by sharing a room or a place as the areas nearby were very expensive to live. “We are finding it very difficult to reach our offices and other places on time because we are not provided any direct route to the main commercial areas of the city,” he said.
Rawalpindi-Islamabad Transport Association Chairman Sultan Awan told The Spokesman that keeping the recent high rise in fuel prices in view it looks difficult to provide a new transportation route to the areas where the transporters could not get passengers in numbers. “It is true that people in those areas are facing problems regarding their transportation. Though few vans are running between Peshawar Morr and Margalla road but still they usually hire a cab to reach their nearest Super Market in F-6 to get to a further route for G-6 and other sectors,” he said.
When contacted, an authorised person of the Capital Territory told The Spokesman that ICT allots new transportation to any area when its residents register application but no one has registered any application to us yet. “It is the first time that someone has contacted us about transportation issue of the cultural village,” he said.
The population consisting almost 3,000 people is not provided any direct route from their town to the major markets of the capital like Aabpara, G-7, G-8, and most interestingly Jinnah Super which located very next to this village, makes the situation regrettable. Most of the people in the rural community are doing low income jobs and every morning they have to go to the capital city for their work, for which they need to change two to three public transportation vehicles to reach their work place on time which irks the movers with a loss of time and money.
Rustam Ali, a resident of the model village, told The Spokesman that a lot of students and working people like him were living in this area by sharing a room or a place as the areas nearby were very expensive to live. “We are finding it very difficult to reach our offices and other places on time because we are not provided any direct route to the main commercial areas of the city,” he said.
Rawalpindi-Islamabad Transport Association Chairman Sultan Awan told The Spokesman that keeping the recent high rise in fuel prices in view it looks difficult to provide a new transportation route to the areas where the transporters could not get passengers in numbers. “It is true that people in those areas are facing problems regarding their transportation. Though few vans are running between Peshawar Morr and Margalla road but still they usually hire a cab to reach their nearest Super Market in F-6 to get to a further route for G-6 and other sectors,” he said.
When contacted, an authorised person of the Capital Territory told The Spokesman that ICT allots new transportation to any area when its residents register application but no one has registered any application to us yet. “It is the first time that someone has contacted us about transportation issue of the cultural village,” he said.
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