After a decade-prolonged wait, Bangladesh Toll road Transport Company (BRTC) has launched its products and companies with 10 air-conditioned (AC) buses on the unfinished Bus Speedy Transit (BRT) lane no topic ongoing building and unresolved disorders.
The provider became inaugurated by Toll road Transport and Bridges Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan at the BRT mission’s bus depot in Gazipur’s Shibbari this morning (15 December).
Acknowledging the challenges, Fouzul urged journalists, “The mission has now not been performed within the stipulated time since its commencement. We absorb constantly known it to be a problematic mission. Despite several closing date extensions, it remains incomplete.”
“This mission didn’t serve any goal for the oldsters. Thus, now we absorb launched a trial provider with 10 BRTC buses in the BRT lane. Issues identified in some unspecified time in the future of this trial period will likely be resolved step-by-step,” he added.
Requested how thousands of crew from a host of garment factories on both facet will skedaddle the busy toll road, the adviser said that due to the reluctance of the contracting company to proceed with the work, the ministry itself will oversee the advance of 10 novel foot-over bridges from the airport to Chandna intersection.
He said a cozy has already been floated to import particular buses for the BRT lane, which would possibly possibly possibly possibly enable extra passengers to skedaddle. He also expressed hope that in the raze, the BRT buses and trains running on the Joydebpur-Dhaka route will likely be made to feature on electrical lines, connected to Chittagong.
Fouzul talked about that presently, buses will skedaddle from Shibbari to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport via the BRT lane. After that, the buses will fall at Farmgate via the elevated miniature-win admission to toll road and, care for other buses, will proceed to Gulistan.
He also talked about that besides as to BRTC buses, non-public autos equivalent to autos and microbuses will now be ready to make teach of the BRT lane. This will likely enable folks from Gazipur to skedaddle from their homes in Gazipur to Dhaka for work.
Within the initiating, 10 AC buses will feature below BRTC alongside the BRT lane, covering a route of 42.5 kilometres.
The route stretches from Shibbari BRT terminal in Gazipur to the Airport, spanning 20.5 kilometres, and extends a extra 22 kilometres from the Airport to Gulistan.
The fare for skedaddle between Shib Bari and the Airport has been residing at Tk70, while the skedaddle from Shibbari to Gulistan will label Tk140.
The sequence of buses will likely be elevated in line with passenger interrogate and the plump readiness of stations alongside the route.
The executive has sought the cooperation of all stakeholders to manufacture definite the a success implementation of the AC bus provider in the BRT hall.
This provider is anticipated to present a blissful and ambiance pleasant transportation possibility for commuters while addressing rising site visitors concerns in the realm.
