Buses will run
from Uttara Airport to Jatrabari Kutubkhali without any interruption through
the Dhaka Elevated Expressway which is under construction. There will be no
traffic congestion in this 20 kilometers long road way, not any traffic
signals. People will be able to reach from one end of the city to the other
end. This will be the benefit of Dhaka Eligible Expressway.
The
Dhaka-Chittagong highway will connect to this Expressway and hope the
construction will end in September 2021. This Expressway will be open for
vehicular traffic from September-2021. Based on this goal, the project is
progressing fast. At present in the project area, the workers and engineers are
working 24 hours non-stop due to the dry season facility.
50% of the
work of the first phase of this project has already been completed from Airport
to Banani section. The second phase is from the Banani railway station to Moghbazar
railway crossing which is expected to complete in July next year and the third
or final phase will be completed in September 2021 which is from Maghbazar
railway crossing to Kutubakhali in Dhaka-Chittagong Highway.
According to
the government's plan, the project will be opened for transportation when the
project is completed from the Kawla near Airport Railway station to Banani rail
crossing and from the Banani rail crossings to the Magbazar railway crossing.
At the same time, the third phase of work will continue.
The Dhaka Elevated
Expressway has so far made 50% progress in the first phase and the overall
progress of the project is 20%. There are total number of 1,304 piles in the expressway.
Of these, 280 pile caps, 62 cross-beam constructions have been completed. Hundred
percent works of 163 columns of the project is done. The remaining 84 columns
were partially completed and the construction of 186 i-girders was completed. Apart
from this, the work of establishing two span i-girders has already been
completed.
The total
cost of this project has been estimated to be 8,940 crore BD Taka. Total length
of this flyover is about 20 kilometers. The route is starting from Kawla near
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport- Kuril Bishwa road- Banani- Mohakhali- Tejgaon-
Maghbazar- Kamalapur- Sayedabad- Jatrabari- Kutubkhali of Dhaka-Chittagong
Highway.
The project
is being implemented on the basis of Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. If
the project is implemented, the traffic congestion will be reduced considerably
inside Dhaka city. It will take only 20 minutes to Kutubakhali from the Airport.
There will not even any traffic signals. As a result, vehicles coming from
Chittagong city will not stuck in the inner streets of Dhaka city.
The passenger
will be able to reach Chittagong from north part of Dhaka without facing any
kind of traffic congestion. Not only that, the Dhaka Elevated Expressway will
also provide regional connectivity to the Asian Highway corridor and this connectivity
will be more advanced and dynamic.
It will also
reduce travel costs because the fuel costs will decrease due to this expressway.
The most profitable will be the time consuming during the journey. Within in a
short span of time passengers will be able to travel 20 km distance. This will also
accelerate the economic development of the country. Add new dimension to GDP, new
horizons will be created in the field of communication in Dhaka city as well as
the whole country.
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