10 new routes to enter, leave Dhaka for Eid
Task force to monitor vehicular movement
Road transport and bridge minister Obaidul Quader has said that a task force will monitor vehicular movement in the capital so that no traffic congestion is created at the entry points of Dhaka city during Eid-ul-Fitr.
He was speaking at a high-level meeting on transportation at the BIAM auditorium yesterday (Tuesday).
Vigilance teams will work at citys bus stations, including Saidabad, Mohakhali and Gabtoli, to reduce the sufferings of home-goers and prevent charging of exorbitant bus fares ahead of Eid.
Human-haulers and unfit vehicles, trucks or covered vans will not be allowed to ply on the highways for three days prior to and after the Eid day, except those carrying perishable commodities, readymade garments and medicine.
CNG stations will remain open for 24 hours from July 10 to 19 to ensure smooth fuel supply to passenger-carrying vehicles.
Adequate cranes and wreckers will be deployed in accident-prone zones of highways to ensure free movement of vehicles if any accident takes place, said the minister.
Shipping minister Shajahan Khan, railway minister Mazibul Hoque, state minister for home Assaduzzaman Khan, state minister for local government and rural development Moshiur Rahman Ranga, mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Annisul Haque, mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) AJM Nasir Uddin and senior officers of law-enforcement agencies were present at the meeting.
The vehicles will use ten new routes, beside the old ones, to enter and leave Dhaka.
The vehicles will follow Jatrabari-Demra-Sultana Kamal bridge, Sylhet route, Babubazar bridge-Ikuria-Postogola bridge-Pagla-Chasara-Narayanganj Link Road-Signboard-Chittagong route, Tongi Station Road-Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master flyover-Mirerbagh-Ulukhela-Kanchan bridge-Pagla-Chasara-Narayanganj Link Road-Signboard-Sylhet, Tongi Station Road-Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master flyover-Mirerbazar-Ghorashat-Panchdona-Sylhet Road-Signboard-Sylhet, Tongi Station Road-Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master flyover-Mirerbazar-Ghorashat-Panchdoan-Sylhet route, Tongi Station Road-Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master flyover-Mirerbazar-Ghorashal-Panchdona-Sylhet route, Tongi Station Road-Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master flyover-Mirerbazar-Ulukhola-Kanchan bridge-Vulta-Sylhet route, Hatirjheet-Rampura-Shekher Jaiga-Amulia-Demra-Sultana Kamal bridge-Sylhet-Chittagong, Gabtali-Mazar road-Mirer dour-Ashulia-EPZ-Chandra to North Bengal, Rayer bazar martyred intellectual bridge-Jinjira-Keraniganj-Mawa and Mirpur Mazar-Dhour-Birulia-Ashulia Highway to North Bengal. These ten routes will be used while travelling during the Eid vacation.
