Repair ends, vehicles move thru' both lanes

Communication minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said that there will be no more cracks in the Bangabandhu Bridge in future as the government used latest technology to repair it.
The repairing work finished one and half months before the deadline, the minister said while inaugurating the resumption of vehicular movement through both lanes of the bridge in the morning.
“The life of the bridge is 100 years. Fourteen years have already passed and there is no possibility of new cracks in the bridge as we have used latest technology", he said.
Five months were required to complete the crack repairing work spending Tk 270 crore while 15 months needed to test and examine and to fix the work plan, Quader added.
Earlier, while visiting the crack repairing on March 31 the minister declared that both lanes of the bridge will be opened for vehicular movement on completion of the work by April 30, reports our Tangail correspondent.
A number of cracks developed at different points of the deck of the country's largest bridge in 2004.
The foreign farm that got the job of crack repairing in June 2011 was given a year to finish the job.
As the firm could not complete the work by the deadline due to various problems, it was given another year, sources said.