Dhaka, Oct 12 (bdnews24.com) – The under construction 1.8-km-long Mirpur-Airport Road flyover through the restricted Dhaka Cantonment zone will be thrown open to the public by early March next year and the overpass and the connecting bridge at the Banani rail crossing by the end of December this year.
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader gave this information after a visit to the project area on Friday.
"Progress of the work is satisfactory. We hope that the Prime Minister will inaugurate the overpass and the connecting bridge by the last week of December," he said.
The 800-meter-long Banani overpass will have six lanes and a designated road. A link bridge will connect the overpass with the flyover.
Quader said that 65 percent of the flyover's construction work had been done, as per the target. Construction of 45 percent of the overpass and the connecting bridge has been completed so far.
The army's Special Works Organisation (SWO) took charge of the project in June 2010 with a target to complete the work by the year-end.
Quader had earlier said that once the flyover was complete, people would cross the cantonment in just 10 minutes.
Starting from Matikata, the flyover ends at Radisson Hotel. People using the flyover will not face the cantonment's check posts. At present, the residents of Mirpur and Pallabi areas have to take a long detour to Bijoy Sarani or Agargaon to go to the airport putting extra pressure on the busy Airport Road.
He also ordered the authorities concerned to complete the repair work of roads across the country before the coming Eid-ul-Azha festival for smooth journey of the homebound people.
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