The country’s first ever elevated expressway is expected to be inaugurated on the first month of 2022. It is expected to reduce traffic jam of the capital by 40 percent to 50 percent once it is completed.
Project officials are optimistic that the first section of the flyover would be opened early next year. And if the entire expressway is opened in June 2023, they expect that the traffic congestion in Dhaka will be reduced by 40 to 50 percent.
Project director of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway AHM Akhtar said, “Vehicular movement from Airport to Tejgaon railway station area is scheduled to open by March-April next year. Once the project is completed, the city’s traffic congestion will be reduced”.
The project director further said that although work started in 2013, the work was slow due to land acquisition and investment complications. But last April all the complications were gone.
The Dhaka Elevated Expressway construction work is progressing at a tremendous pace as land acquisition and investment complexities are solved. In the meantime, about 2,400 pillars have been erected from the Airport to Tejgaon area. Eye girders are also installed on them.
The 20-km-long elevated expressway will start from Shahjalal Airport and end at Chittagong Road via Banani and Tejgaon. The flyover is being constructed in three stages centering on the railway line.
The expressway will have 31 rams. In the first phase, about 63 percent of the work has been done from the Airport to Banani. In the second phase, the work from Banani to Magbazar has been completed by 17 percent.
