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6.1 Quality
were from Shah faisal town. Bin Qasim town on the other hand fall under the category of highest
% of people having income group in between Rs.10, 000-30,000. Nazimabad is having the
highest % for above 30,000 incomes. No respondent fall in the category of below Rs.10, 000 from
Nazimabad and Gulshan towns and above Rs.30, 000 from Kemari, Shah Faisal and Malir towns.
In case of using public transport among 180 respondents from 9 towns, 56.6% use public
transport on daily basis. How ever, a significant 70% of the respondents from saddar town use
public transport on weekly basis, this could probably be due to their work places near vicinity.
In Kemari town 45% of the respondents do not own a single vehicle, no respondent found who do
not have any vehicle from saddar and Nazimabad and Gulshan towns. In Malir town every
respondent is having at least one vehicle. Highest % of respondents having more than 2 vehicles
was from Nazimabad and Gulshan towns.
78% of the respondents are not satisfied with the service offered by current transport system only
22 % give a positive result. Among the students and business professionals, 80 % are not satisfied
with the performance of existing transport system of Karachi, 5% are satisfied while the rest are
not sure about the performance.
63% of the people responded that the Karachi public transport buses in which they travel daily are
over loaded and 33 % people replied that they are overloaded occasionally.
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26 % people who responded have an opinion that through public transport buses they are not able
to reach their destination safely on time, 41% said that only some time they are able to reach
safely on time while only 33 % people have a positive response but that is also dependent on
some particular routes and during particular timings.
56% people of Karachi have an opinion that a new private public partnership CNG buses will
provide them a better service rather than existing transport system and 36 % people‘s opinion is
may be and rest of 8% people opine that it will not provide them a good quality service.
60 % people are not happy with the performance of existing transport system of Karachi and 19
% people are in favor of the today‘s transport System while the 21% public responded that some
time satisfied with its performance.
6.2 Availability
26 % people responded that buses are available on time, 47 % people responded that sometime it
is available on time and the 27 % people responded that the buses are not at all available on time.
Mostly people responded that the buses pick up the passenger from anywhere, even in between
the roads. Only 16 % responded that buses carry them from the bus stop.
49 % people responded that buses are not available 24 hours a day, 35 % people don‘t have any
idea about that.
Mostly people responded that buses are available in their areas but 18 % people responded that
they don‘t have any transport facility available in their area and the 19 % responded that some
time the buses are available.
48 % people are not satisfied with the timing between the two buses (i.e. time headway), 38 % are
satisfied sometime and the rest of people are satisfied with the timing between the two buses.
6.3 Infrastructure
Mostly people responded that area where they reside is developed and 25 % people responded
that area where they reside is not developed.
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