3:30pm to 9:40pm: Metro rail’s Friday schedule unveiled

The Dhaka metro rail authorities dangle issued an legitimate describe to characteristic the insist provider on Fridays from 20 September onward.

In accordance to the Dhaka Mass Transit Firm Little (DMTCL) directive issued as of late (18 September), the metro rail will characteristic from Uttara North to Motijheel from 3:30pm to 9pm, and Motijheel to Uttara North from 3:50pm to 9:40pm each and every Friday.

Basically the most well-known arrangements to this end dangle been made, reads the directive.

Moreover, Mohammad Abdur Rouf, managing director of DMTCL will care for a press briefing tomorrow to produce miniature print concerning the operation of the metro rail on Fridays and the outlet of closed stations.

The day gone by, the managing director acknowledged, “Efforts are underway to speed metro rail on weekly holidays from this Friday following the choice of the ministry.”

“The authorities moreover search info from that the metro trains will discontinuance at Kazipara web site from 20 September as it is ready for operational actions,” he added.

At some level of the “Total Shutdown” programme of the Anti-Discrimination College students Motion, a group of individuals vandalised Mirpur-10 and Kazipara stations within the evening of 19 July.

They vandalised the total lot, including the acquire site’s designate merchandising machine and passenger entry punch machine on the stations, which compelled them to care for the two stations closed for 37 days.

The metro operations resumed on 25 August, however the two stations remained closed.

Earlier, the estimated sign for repairing these stations used to be Tk300 crore, but later a committee used to be fashioned to further scrutinise the repairing sign.

“We hope that the repair sign of these stations will decrease as we are procuring gear from the native market,” he acknowledged.

He further acknowledged the finest repair sign will most definitely be estimated after getting the instruct of the overview committee.

In accordance to connected sources, Mirpur-10 web site will rob a pair of more months to change into operational.