Agargaon to Motijheel in just 14 minutes!
Metro rail operations on the Agargaon-Motijheel section opened to public today as the first train left Motijheel station at 7:30am.
"We are on time. Trains started from both ends [Motijheel and Uttara] on time. The experience is good so far," Nasir Uddin Ahmed, director (operations and maintenance) of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, told The Daily Star at Motijheel station.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. This correspondent got on a train from Agargaon station at 9:09am and got off the train at Motijheel station at 9:23am.
The train was heavily crowded as it was the start of the work day and a large portion of passengers got off at Secretariat station.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Agargaon-Motijheel section yesterday afternoon, making the entire route from Uttara North to Motijheel operational.
In December last year, she inaugurated the Uttara North-Agargaon section of the country's first metro rail.
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