[🇧🇩] City Buses, Metro Rail, Urban Transport & City Road Infra

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Bogra City portion of Dhaka-Elenga-Rangpur 6 lane highway

 

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Current status of Dhaka's Newest DOHS and suburb Jolshiri - which is also the country's latest smart city project.

 

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Dhaka Metro MRT Line 1 is the 2nd Metro Line to be built after the first - MRT Line 6. Depot construction for MRT-1 is proceeding apace.

 

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2 MRT lines may miss deadline

The metro rail authorities are likely to miss the 2030 deadline for completing two of the six planned metro lines in Dhaka as they have not yet started carrying out feasibility studies for the two lines.

www.thedailystar.net

2 MRT lines may miss deadline
Feasibility studies for MRT-2 and 4 yet to start

The metro rail authorities are likely to miss the 2030 deadline for completing two of the six planned metro lines in Dhaka as they have not yet started carrying out feasibility studies for the two lines.

With the consultants already hired, the authorities are set to start conducting the feasibility study for Mass Rapid Transit Line-4. But the progress of the MRT Line-2 project is disappointing as the financier for the feasibility study has not yet been found, let alone hiring a consultant for the work, officials concerned said.

Once the feasibility studies are done and financiers are found, the authorities will have to go through a long process -- preparing a project proposal, having it approved, acquiring land, preparing a detailed design, and floating tenders to hire contractors, they said.

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Dhaka’s transport turmoil

Dhaka is the world's rickshaw capital

www.thedailystar.net

Dhaka's transport turmoil

The manoeuvring and manipulation of the public transport system remains a perennial source of pain and suffering for commuters and non-commuters alike. PHOTO: PRABIR DAS

Dhaka is the world's rickshaw capital. It is also arguably the mobile museum of broken buses. For a city that aspires to be smart, paddle rickshaws and rickety buses past their recyclable years seem to be an anathema. Yet, they reign in scandalous glory. To exacerbate the situation, the city has incorporated indigenous innovations to power the paddle rickshaws and disregarded the laws pertaining to dilapidated buses. The manoeuvring and manipulation of the public transport system remains a perennial source of pain and suffering for commuters and non-commuters alike.

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