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Traffic collisions in Pakistan are among the highest in the world, with thousands of lives lost and many severely injured each year. [2] In 2021 alone, 10,379 road accidents resulted in some 5,608 fatalities. [ 3 ]
Shahrah-e-Faisal is one of Karachi's busiest roads, and is the site of frequent traffic jams. [26] The Road Traffic Injury and Prevention Centre of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre showed that at least one person dies, and an average of 83 people are wounded, every day on Karachi roads. Shahrah-e-Faisal is considered to be the deadliest road.
When vehicles are fully stopped for periods of time, this is known as a traffic jam [3] [4] or (informally) a traffic snarl-up [5] [6] or a tailback. [7] Drivers can become frustrated and engage in road rage .
Parts of Karachi received 147 mm (5.79 inches) of rain overnight, the local weather office said. The city's mayor, Murtaza Wahab, in a post on X, urged residents to avoid "unnecessary movement".
Karachi Urban Transport Corporation (KUTC) (Urdu: کراچی شهری حمل و نقل شرکت) is a municipal agency responsible for planning and integrating road transport and public transport in the Metropolitan Karachi area.
The M-9 motorway or the Karachi–Hyderabad motorway (Urdu: کراچی–حیدرآباد موٹروے) is a north–south motorway in the Sindh province of Pakistan, connecting Karachi to Hyderabad. [1] The six-lane road is 136 kilometres long, [2] [3] and caters to the commercial traffic originating from the Karachi Port and Port Qasim. Daily ...
On newly constructed motorways, and the recently constructed motorway M3 (Faisalabad), M-2 and M-1, the speed limit is 120 km/h (75 mph). In most urban residential areas, the speed limit is 40–50 km/h (25–31 mph). The G.T. Road's speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph). Urban arterial roads generally have an 80 km/h (50 mph). [1]
The Pakistani Government is developing the Karachi Metrobus project, which is a 6-line 150-kilometre (93 + 1 ⁄ 4-mile) bus rapid transit system. [2] The Metrobus project was inaugurated by then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 25 February 2016.