Saturday, May 25, 2019

Meghna and Daudkandi Bridges Inaugurated | No Trafic Jam in Dhaka- Cumilla- Chittagong Highway



The Second Meghna and Second Meghna-Gomti Bridge (Daudkandi Bridge) has been inaugurated by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on 25th May 2019, Saturday morning through video conferencing from Ganobhaban. The life-line of Bangladesh's economy, the highly anticipated Dhaka-Chittagong highway (N1) is now feeling better! Since the inauguration, the bridges (Meghna, Meghna-Gomti and Kanchpur) are opened for vehicular movement.

Due to the inauguration of the bridges, the people of the south-east are can return to their home with comfort to enjoy the Eid-Al-Fitr holiday. Nearly seven hundred Crore BD Taka for the construction of the new second Meghna, second Meghna-Gomti Bridge including the second Kanchpur Bridge, have been saved and the construction work has been completed almost seven months before the tentative date.

The Japanese ambassador in Bangladesh Mr. Hiroyasu Ejumi, in the inauguration ceremony, expressed hope that Bangladesh-Japan relations will go much further.

In addition to the second Meghna and the second Gomti-Meghna bridge, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Sasek road connecting project, the Konabari and Chandra flyover at Joydevpur-Chandra-Tangail-Elenga Highway, Kaliakoir- Deohata- Mirzapur- Gharinda underpass and Kadda-1 bridge and Baimail Bridge.

According to local sources, from the booth sides more than 35 thousand vehicles are transported daily by this National Highway (N1). To cross the toll plaza of the two bridges passengers faces the traffic congestion. Due to daily traffic congestion, the highway was become a great suffering route. The construction of the second bridges has begun in 2016, to end the suffering of the last five to six years.

For the financial assistance of JICA and the Bangladesh government, the cost was Taka 1,950 crore for the Meghna-Gomti River which is 1,410 meters long with 17 spans and 17.75 meters wide. The second Meghna Bridge of 17.75 meter width and the cost of Taka 1,750 crore which is 930 meters long including 12 spans. Construction of the two bridges ended in the 41st month for almost three and a half years.



Due to the much-awaited inauguration of Meghna and Meghna-Gomati Bridges, there is no traffic congestion on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway from today (25th May, 2019). Peoples are not going to suffer for hours after hours and in the Eid return home journey, hoping the passengers will not suffer further. It was found that where there was a congestion hourly traffic jam on the previous day, there was absolutely no traffic congestion on the highway except toll collection time in the same place.

It is known that in any long holiday breaks, including Eid every year caused long traffic congestion when the people's back home. The traffic congestion sometimes crossed the Kanchpur Bridge at the Dhaka Sylhet highway intersection. Last year during the Ramadan, the traffic congestion hit the Mayor Hanif Flyover of Dhaka-Narayanganj under pressure from the people to return home. But the traffic department said that there will be no more such problem again.


Passenger Mr. Ariful traveled on this route told, "I come to Dhaka every week for my business purpose. Before that it took hours after hours to cross the road. Before one day, we had to pass hours in one place. After the bridge started today, I crossed in a moment. Hopefully we will not suffer the trouble of Eid festival”.

The bus driver of Dhaka-Cumilla Tisha Exclusive service told that the bridges have introduced and they are really happy. They had suffered a lot and wasted lots of time before the inauguration. Sometimes even days have passed; they had Iftar and Sahari on the road. It is expected that there will be no more traffic jam on this route.


There is a Joint Expansion in the second Meghna Bridge of 930 meters long. As a result, there will be no obstruction in the movement of this bridge. Vehicles will be able to move on this bridge very quickly. The old Meghna Bridge is of two lanes but the new is of four lanes. That means total six lanes in two bridges. Vehicles with four lanes of roads can move to six lanes in two bridges. As a result, due to the bridge there will be no traffic congestion will occur. The bridges are now free of traffic.

Every year the local administration take additional police help in controlling the traffic congestion of this route. This year, the Second Meghna, Second Meghna-Gomti Bridge (Daudkandi Bridge) and Kanchpur Bridge is ready, so they are expecting that this year there will be no traffic congestion.


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