ISLAMABAD: The city’s managers may start an ‘Orange Line’ track in the federal capital, the first rail-based mass rapid transit system in the city.

The proposed line will start from Rawat and end at Peshawar Mor where it will be connected to the metro bus track.

An official of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) said that Islamabad mayor and acting CDA chief Sheikh Anser Aziz, Member Planning Asad Mehboob Kayani and other officers on Saturday went to Lahore to get information about the Lahore orange line project.

They are said to have inspected various stations of the Orange Line project and obtained details of the project from the concerned authority.

The mayor has been making attempts for launching a transport project but the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad does not have funds.

“We did visit Lahore to inspect the Orange Line project and the mayor has been using his office for starting some project in Islamabad,” said Mr Kayani, who also holds acting charge as chief metropolitan officer.

He said various transport projects have been funded under CPEC and that the federal capital has not yet received any such funds.

“We will request the federal government to include this project in CPEC,” he said.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2017