Saturday, March 14, 2020

Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway has been Inaugurated


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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