Dhaka Elevated Expressway

Dhaka Elevated Expressway is Bangladesh's first elevated expressway project,[1] which will connect the Shahjalal airport with Kutubkhali via Mohakhali, Tejgaon and Kamalapur of Dhaka, Bangladesh.[2] It is one of the largest infrastructure projects taken up by the incumbent government to ease traffic congestion in the capital.[3] It will be 46.73 km (153,300 ft) [4] long including the connecting roads and will cost around ৳122 billion (US$1.6 billion).[2]

From Bangladesh Economic Review:2016-17 The contract agreement has been signed with ‘Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited’ on 15 December 2013 to construct the 46.73 km (with ramp) long Dhaka elevated expressway at the cost of ৳8940.18 crore (US$1.1 billion) from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Kutubkhali on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway on PPP basis. Construction of this expressway including ramp is going on and meanwhile 589 pile drives already completed. It is expected that construction work will end by 2020. People of the important areas of this city like airport, Kuril, Mohakhali, Tejgaon, Manikmia avenue, Polashi, Karwanbazar, Kamlapur, Motijheel will use this elevated expressway to reduce consumption of Fuel and curtail working hour wasted and to avoided traffic jam.

Contracts for the expressway

The Ital-Thai Development Corporation Limited has entered a $1.062 billion[1] contract with China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) for building the Dhaka Elevated Expressway.[2]

Onwards Developments

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated construction of the 21 km expressway on April 30, 2011 with a hope that it will be completed in three and a half years.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Elevated expressway work starting this month: Quader".
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Dhaka Elevated Expressway PPP Project".
  3. ↑ "Dhaka Expressway: Now Chinese firm on the scene".
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
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