Staff Reporter:
The 48-kilometre Dhaka bypass expressway is set to open partly on May 1 to facilitate smoother opera-tion for buses, trucks, and other vehicles from northern and western regions to southern and eastern re-gions.
“The entire bypass expressway will be opened for traffic in July next year, as 68 percent of development work has already been completed. The rest of the work is going on in full swing,” Syed Aslam Ali, Pro-ject Director, Dhaka Bypass Development Project told yesterday.
He said out of the total 48 km expressway, 20 km from Bhogla to Purbachal is now completed, while 28 km is now under development, adding, “We have temporarily opened 20 km expressway for traffic on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Fitr to ensure smooth travel of the people.”
He said the four-lane bypass expressway is a strategic corridor for freight movement linking the manu-facturing centre in the northern Dhaka with the centre of shipping activity at the port of Chattogram in the south.
“But the development work was delayed one year due to a long process for land acquisition. We will construct an interchange (intercrossing) having the modern facility to enter Purbachal and exit from the expressway,” the project director said.
He said per truck and car will pay around Tk. 1400-1500 and Tk. 700-800 as tools respectively by using the bypass expressway from Bhogla to Madanpur.
