The much-awaited elevated expressway’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport-Farmgate section will be inaugurated this afternoon (September 2).
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the expressway at a programme to be held at the old trade fair ground at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar here at 3.30pm.
However, the airport-Farmgate section will be opened to traffic the day after the inauguration.
He said the length of this section is about 11.5km. There are 15 ramps for boarding. Out of these, two ramps at Banani and Mohakhali will remain closed for the time being. The maximum speed limit for traffic on the expressway will be 60 km per hour.
Three-wheelers, bicycles and pedestrians will not be allowed to move on the expressway, while motorbikes cannot run on it right now.
Earlier, the road transport and bridges ministry fixed the toll rates for the Dhaka Elevated Expressway’s airport-Farmgate section, ranging from Tk 80 to Tk 400.
The total length of the elevated expressway is 46.73km covering Kawla, Kuril, Banani, Mohakhali, Tejgaon, Moghbazar, Kamalapur, Sayedabad, Jatrabari to Kutubkhali on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
Initially, the speed limit on the expressway will be 60km per hour and vehicles will take 10 minutes to travel the 11km distance from the HSIA to Farmgate.
With an 11.5km mainline and 11km ramp, the length of the part will be 22.5km. Initially, 13 out of 15 ramps in this part will be opened. The ramps at Banani and Mohakhali will be opened once their construction is complete.
The total expenditure of the project is estimated at Tk 8,940 crore, while the viability gap funding is Tk 2,413 crore, which will be provided by Bangladesh government.
BDST: 0957 HRS, SEP 02, 2023
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