The government has fixed the toll rates for vehicles to get on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader revealed the information at the Secretariat today.

According to a press release, a car, taxi, jeep, SUV, microbus (under 16 seats) and light truck (below three tonnes) will have to pay Tk 80, a medium-sized truck (up to six wheels) Tk 320, truck (with over six wheels) Tk 400 and all type of buses (16 seats and above) Tk 160 as toll to get on the expressway.

A major part of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway will open to traffic in September, more than a decade after the project was initiated to ease the capital's perennial traffic congestion.

Once the 11-kilometre section from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Farmgate -- via Kuril, Banani, Mohakhali and Tejgaon -- opens to traffic, it will serve as an alternative route to and from the airport road, one of the busiest in the city.

The rest of the 19.73km expressway, the first of its kind in the country, is expected to open next year. Commuters will have to pay tolls to use the expressway, which is also the first project in the transport sector being implemented under the Public-Private Partnership model with foreign investment.