Authorities have increased the speed limit on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway from 60 kilometres per hour to 80 kilometres per hour, starting from February 27 night.
Police will begin filing video-based cases against speeding vehicles on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway from February 21 to prevent potential accidents, the expressway authorities said yesterday.
Why continue an initiative that will worsen waterlogging?
The authorities opened one of the five tollbooths at the ramp around noon, said Captain (retd) Hasib Hasan Khan, manager (operations and maintenance) of First Dhaka Elevated Expressway Company Ltd (FDEE)
Operations were suspended since July 18
Says operating company
The Supreme Court today issued status quo on transfer of Italian-Thai company's shares to China's Sinohydro Corporation Limited in Dhaka Elevated Expressway till May 30
The problem lies in the lack of clarity regarding the type of speed cameras installed and their operational status.
General public can use the ramp from evening today
A massive transformation is set to occur in the transportation of goods and passengers with the opening of the country's first elevated expressway in Dhaka. Economists and businesses have said that this mega-infrastructure project will significantly reduce both the time and cost of doing business.
When the World Bank released an analysis of Dhaka city's traffic conditions in 2017, the total number of registered vehicles was 11.82 lakh.
The government has fixed the toll rates for vehicles to get on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the mega projects, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today
A major part of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway will finally open to traffic in September, more than a decade after the project was initiated to ease the capital’s perennial traffic congestion.
The limited launch of the metro tomorrow is unlikely to make any real dent in Dhaka's traffic problem
Parts of Dhaka Elevated Expressway (airport to Moghbazar) will be opened after the second phase of public-private partnership project (PPP) finishes by December 2020, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.
Parts of Dhaka Elevated Expressway (airport to Moghbazar) will be opened after the second phase of public-private partnership project (PPP) finishes, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday.
The government plans to build a nearly 40km elevated expressway from Hemayetpur in Savar to Madanpur in Narayanganj for creating a vital link between major highways. The East-West Elevated Expressway would allow traffic to switch highways and skip the congested streets of the capital. Vehicles on Dhaka-Aricha highway would be able to speed towards the Dhaka-Chittagong highway with options to go in the direction of Mawa and Sylhet.
The government in the last seven years has failed to issue the work order for the 47km Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE) even though its construction has been inaugurated twice.
