Dhaka: work on link road to start soon

Dhaka: Construction of a new link road through Tejgaon old airport in parallel to Rokeya Sarani begins next week as part of measures to ease traffic congestion in the city.

Starting from the relief depot opposite the Chief Adviser's Office (CAO), the road will stretch to Agargaon to link Rokeya Sarani and Mirpur Road. Once it is open, pressure on the road between Mohakhali flyover and Farmgate will come down drastically, said LGRD ministry sources.

Commuters from Mirpur, Shyamali, Kalyanpur and Mohammadpur areas will be able to save at least 20 minutes by using it to go to Mohakhali, Gulshan, Zia International Airport and Uttara.

At present, they have to use Bijoy Sarani that remains clogged with traffic during rush hours.

Speaking at a press conference at Tejgaon airport, LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal said the chief adviser will inaugurate the construction work on May 31.

Designed to be 2.6 kilometres long and 18.5 metres wide, the road would be built by this year-end, he added.

With help from engineers' corps of the army, Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) will implement the project budgeted at Tk 24.92 crore.

According to plans, the road will eventually connect to the Chittagong highway through Tejgaon-Hatirjheel-Rampura.

Under the project, the road going past Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre would be repaired while that in front of the CAO would be widened.

A boundary wall would be raised along the runway of old airport, the adviser said.

LGRD Secretary Sheikh Khurshid Alam, Chief Engineer of the army’s engineers' corps Major General Ismail Faruque and DCC Chief Executive Officer Md Alauddin were present at the press briefing. Later, they inspected the project site.