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Mass Rapid Transit: Loss-Making or City-Shaping Machines

Minute Mirror · 2025

Type

Newspaper Column

Venue

Minute Mirror

Year

2025

Date

11 August 2025

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In Brief

MRT systems in Pakistan should be evaluated on city-shaping externalities — agglomeration, land value, and congestion reduction — not farebox recovery alone.

Pakistan’s mass rapid transit projects are frequently judged by farebox revenue rather than their broader city-shaping role — reducing congestion costs, enabling agglomeration, and restructuring land use. This piece reframes MRT evaluation through an urban economics lens.

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About the Author

Dr. Ghulam Mohey-ud-din

Senior Economic Planner, Parsons Corporation · RCJY, Saudi Arabia
PhD Economics · 18+ years · 20+ peer-reviewed publications · $60M+ programmes advised

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Piece Details

Type

Newspaper Column

Venue

Minute Mirror

Year

2025

Date

11 August 2025

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