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Walking Lahore’s Orange Line
This talk will reflect on key themes from the recently published edited volume Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan (UCL Press, 2025). This collaborative portrait of a major South Asian metropolis is organised around the path of Pakistan’s first, mass transit metro rail corridor: the 27-km long Orange Line, opened in 2020. The editors will discuss the frictions generated by the construction of this major piece of transport infrastructure. But they will also trace the new geographies opened by the metro as well as its integration into the wider flows of everyday life in Lahore. Reflecting on the different modes of transportation – walking, rail and road travel as well private and public conveyances – the talk will focus on gender and class hierarchies in how Lahore is accessed and experienced. It will highlight the politics and challenges surrounding equitable transport provision.
Date:
15 May 2025, 14:00
Venue:
Online only
Speakers:
Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University of London),
Dr Ammara Maqsood (UCL),
Fizzah Sajjad (The London School of Economics and Poltical Science)
Organising department:
Transport Studies Unit
Organiser contact email address:
kirsty.ray@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-transport-studies-unit-oxford-walking-lahores-orange-line-tickets-1302897765289?aff=oddtdtcreator
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Kirsty Ray
