The much-awaited country’ first 55-km-long Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga
Expressway has been inaugurated on Thursday, 12 March 2020. Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the expressway through a video conference from
Ganabhaban on that day.
The expressway will reach to Bhanga of Faridpur from the Mayor
Hanif flyover of Dhaka over the Padma Bridge over Munsiganj district. The
expressway has separate lanes for different vehicles, flyovers to avoid
crossing, underpass and other modern traffic systems and facilities. It will
take only around 42 minutes to pass this 55 km long expressway, which is really
a dream at this time.
This expressway designed with all the facilities of a
modern express highway to ensure that the people can fully utilize the Padma
Bridge, once it is constructed. With the launch of the Padma Bridge, this
reality will happen. However, the people of South Bengal are getting the
benefits right now. Because the 35 km route from Hanif flyover to Mawa will now
take only 27 minutes.
Travel to Dhaka from Mawa will take less than an hour
once the Padma Bridge construction is completed. Two parts of the expressway
will be connected through the Padma Bridge. Recently, the 26th span was
installed on the bridge and now it is visible for around four-kilometers long.
The construction of the Dhaka-Faridpur Bhanga 55km
expressway began on July 2016 and was expected to finish by June 2019. In all,
the project constructed at a cost of more than BD Taka 11 thousand. The whole
expressway has been split into two sections due to the construction of Padma River
Bridge. One part of this is from Jatrabari Mayor Hanif flyover, Dhaka to Mawa
which 35 KM Long and the other part is from Pacchor to Bhanga, Faridpur which
is 20 KM long. This is the first six-lane expressway in Bangladesh with service
lanes on both sides.
Finally, the project was completed in the first week of
this month. It has 44 culverts, 19 underpasses, four big bridges, 25 small
bridges, five flyovers, two interchange and four railway overpasses. All of
these were built at different points in order to ensure uninterrupted vehicular
movement on this highway. Bangladesh Army was in charge of its construction.
The highway is included in the Asian Highway Corridor. The 24 Engineer
Construction Brigade of Bangladesh Army implemented the project under the
supervision of Roads and Highways Department.
The 55-km long expressway will ease the travel from
Khulna and Barishal divisions to Dhaka and it will definitely play an important
role to the growth of national economy of Bangladesh.
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