KP Government Buys 50 New Buses for Peshawar BRT Worth Rs 2.14 Billion

Fleet to Swell From 244 to 296 Buses as Five Pink Buses Join the Network for Women Commuters

PESHAWAR: The KP govt has purchased 50 additional buses for the Peshawar BRT system, at a cost of Rs 2 billion 13 crore 90 lakh, provincial transport authorities confirmed.

Of these 50 new buses, 27 will arrive in Peshawar in the next phase and two of them are coming free, gifted directly by the manufacturing company as part of the deal.

Peshawar BRT Fleet Expands

BRT's current fleet of 244 buses will jump to 269 once this batch lands, and the total will climb further to 296 buses once every unit in the pipeline actually reaches the city. That's a fleet expansion of more than 21 percent from where Peshawar stands today.

Trans Peshawar, the company running the BRT system, added a detail that matters for half the city's commuters: five of the existing 244 buses will now be reserved exclusively for women. These pink buses are coming, and officials say the specific routes for the women-only service will be finalized shortly.

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50 Electric Buses Next

The bigger procurement story goes back further than this single purchase. Trans Peshawar had recommended the provincial government buy 100 buses altogether to fix a chronic shortage on the network split evenly between 50 diesel-hybrid buses and 50 fully electric ones. The provincial cabinet approved the plan, and the rollout got split into two phases: first, the 50 diesel-hybrid buses now arriving, and later, 50 more electric buses in a second procurement round.

Put the whole plan together, and Trans Peshawar's own estimate for total spending on this bus buying spree comes to Rs 3.20 billion a serious provincial investment aimed squarely at Peshawar's daily commuter crunch.

Easing the Commuter Crunch

For a city where BRT ridership has long outpaced bus availability during peak hours, the expansion couldn't come at a more relevant moment. More buses on the road should, at least on paper, mean shorter waits and less crowding assuming rollout timelines hold and the second phase of electric buses doesn't slip.

Whether the pink bus initiative translates into a genuinely safer, more accessible commute for women remains the detail worth watching once routes are announced. For now, KP's transport planners have set a clear target: nearly 300 buses running across Peshawar's BRT corridor, with a fleet that's shifting bus by bus toward a cleaner, hybrid-and-electric future.