The Dhaka-Chittagong highway is set to be dotted with artificial intelligence (AI) based CCTV cameras covering a span of 250 kilometres. The cameras, financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at BDT 152 crore 56 lakhs, are aimed at enhancing the capabilities of the highway police, according to sources associated with the project.
Two people are killed and 20 others injured in a road crash at Daudkandi upazilla of Comilla.
With the Eid-ul-Azha only two days away, holidaymakers leaving Dhaka were delayed in long tailbacks on some major highways.
A 23-kilometre tailback is created on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway due to heavy rush of vehicles as Eid journey of home-goers begin.
Hundreds of passengers are stuck in a 25-kilometre tailback on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway. The tailback that ensued on Wednesday stretched from Meghna-Gumti Bridge toll plaza to Jinglatoli in Daudkandi upazila.
Hundreds of passengers have been suffering a lot as a 15-kilometre-long tailback is created on Dhaka-Chittagong highway due to slow movement of vehicles ahead of Eid-ul-Azha in Daudkandi area.
A 10-km tailback has been created on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Fatehpur, causing immense sufferings to the commuters.
Transport workers in Chittagong block the Dhaka-Chittagong highway for two hours and attack drivers plying vehicles following the recent suspension on plying of public transports called by the bus owners and workers in different districts.
During a demo of transport workers, an altercation broke out between them and passengers of a bus at Mouchak area of Siddhirganj in Narayanganj, witnesses say.
The operation at the weigh station along Dhaka-Chittagong highway, which was vandalised allegedly by transport workers following a protest last month, will be resumed tomorrow.
Transport workers block Dhaka-Chittagong highway in front of Load Control Station (weighing scale) in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong for four hours protesting an alleged assault on a truck driver by the station staff.
Congestion on Dhaka-Chittagong highway is nothing short of a nightmare.
Hundreds of passengers are stuck in 65-kilometre tailback on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway due to huge pressure of vehicles.
The massive tailback due to the construction of Fatehpur rail overpass on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Feni over the past week was expected, said a leading traffic system expert. He noted that the work lacked a traffic management plan.
A lane of Fatehpur Railway Overpass in Feni was inaugurated today and is now open to public with hope that it will ease public suffering on Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
As passengers got stuck on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway for 24 hours just the other day, how does this traffic jam compare with other snarl-ups around the world?
Bangladesh’s garment manufacturers have demanded a special train service to access Chittagong amid long tailback persisting on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
Bus owners will go on strike in Chittagong tomorrow, demanding immediate mitigation of traffic congestion on Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
Opening of three new bridges on the Shitalakkhya, Meghna and Gumti rivers will reduce bottlenecks on Dhaka-Chittagong highway early next year.
