Hundreds of passengers have been suffering delays due to a 15-kilometre-long tailback on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway that started this morning
Vehicular movement on the Chattogram-Dhaka highway partially resumed this morning, after four days of disruption, as floodwater started to recede from the road
Most vehicles avoided the highway today
A huge number of industrial establishments have been built along the highway, hoping to capitalise on the connectivity to the country’s largest seaport in Chattogram
The government will build a 1.07km underpass in the capital’s airport area to link Dhaka airport terminals, railway, BRT, MRT stations and the Hajj camp.
An impasse over the upgradation of Dhaka-Chattogram Highway seems to be over as the Roads and Highways Department has started working to determine where the road will have six lanes and where it will have eight.
Such incidents are becoming a serious problem for apparel exporters
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Chattogram highway was halted for three hours tonight (October 25, 2022) as trees collapsed at Daudkandi and Bhaberchar area due to the squally weather caused by Cyclone Sitrang.
Transport movement on Dhaka-Chattogram highway remained suspended for two hours as workers of a jute mill blocked the highway in Cumilla, demanding arrears of last five months and Eid bonus.
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Chattogram highway is disrupted for two hours as fishermen put barricade at Sitakunda point of Chattagram, protesting the government move banning fishing in the Bay of Bengal.
Two more bridges on the Meghna and Gumti rivers are all set to open to traffic next week.
A 10-km tailback is created on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Daudkandi upazila, causing immense sufferings to passengers.
Two pedestrians and a van puller were killed after a driver lost control of a lorry and it ran over the three on Dhaka-Chattogram highway near Kutumbpur bus stand in Cumilla's Chandina upazila yesterday.
It was supposed to be a happy family reunion.
The three bottlenecks that have been causing so much pain to travellers on Dhaka-Chattogram highway are expected to be removed by June.
A violent clash broke out between two groups of locals on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Narayanganj yesterday, which resulted in traffic deadlock on the highway for four hours, vehicles and shops being vandalised and at least 20 people, including policemen, injured.
After a delay of six years from original project completion date, the Dhaka-Chattogram expanded highway was inaugurated in June, 2017 at a final cost of Tk 3,439 crore which was a markup of 58 percent (due to repeated revisions in design).
As the Dhaka-Chattogram highway is experiencing a horrible traffic jam due to work on a railway overpass in Feni, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the work will be completed in 25 days.