�Elevated expressway to complete by 2019�

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said construction work on 20-km Dhaka Elevated Expressway Project will complete by 2019, repors UNB.
“About 10 percent of piling work on the project has already been completed,” he told reporters while visiting the project site in the city’s Kuril area.
Dhaka Elevated Expressway Project is being implemented involving about Tk 8,900 crore under Public Private Partnership
(PPP).
Quader said city dwellers will not face any suffering during project implementation as the expressway will go along rail line from Airport Station to Kamlapur.
Compensation has already been given to the affected families of the project, he said, adding that a total of 1200 flats will be distributed to affected families after completing a housing project, with the expressway project’s fund, in the city’s Uttara area.
About the city’s traffic congestion, the minister said traffic jam will ease significantly in the capital by making footpaths free for pedestrians and checking the plying of small vehicles.
Bridge Division secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam, Bridge Division chief engineer Kabir Ahmed and project director of Dhaka Elevated Expressway Mohammad Ferdous were, among others, present on the occasion.

 

�Elevated expressway to complete by 2019�

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said construction work on 20-km Dhaka Elevated Expressway Project will complete by 2019, repors UNB. About 10 percent of piling work on the project has already been completed, he told reporters while visiting the project site in the citys Kuril area. Dhaka Elevated Expressway Project is being implemented involving about Tk 8,900 crore under Public Private Partnership (PPP). Quader said city dwellers will not face any suffering during project implementation as the expressway will go along rail line from Airport Station to Kamlapur. Compensation has already been given to the affected families of the project, he said, adding that a total of 1200 flats will be distributed to affected families after completing a housing project, with the expressway projects fund, in the citys Uttara area. About the citys traffic congestion, the minister said traffic jam will ease significantly in the capital by making footpaths free for pedestrians and checking the plying of small vehicles. Bridge Division secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam, Bridge Division chief engineer Kabir Ahmed and project director of Dhaka Elevated Expressway Mohammad Ferdous were, among others, present on the occasion.