20km Gazipur-Airport Route: Work for rapid bus service starts in 2012

Implementation of rapid bus service project in the Gazipur to airport route begins early next year and to be completed by the end of 2013, said officials concerned at a workshop at a city hotel Wednesday.
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) jointly organised the workshop on presentation of the draft of final feasibility report on Greater Dhaka Sustainable Urban Transport Corridor Project.
Md Aminur Rahman Lasker, project director, said the 20-kilometre double-lane rapid bus service (Bus Rapid Transit, BRT) route from Gazipur to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport will have a seven-metre wide dedicated lane at the centre of the road.
"We will widen the existing 15-metre road with the land available at RHD's ownership and also through acquisition of land where necessary for the other commuters," he said.
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