When the afternoon sun was shining down around 2:15pm yesterday, Sagor Hossain started for Farmgate from Shantinagar. He chose that particular time for the journey mainly to avoid the rush-hour traffic.
The extended Moghbazar Flyover ramp near Sonargaon Hotel may make the already crammed street even more congested, according to an expert and project officials. Moreover, a 50-metre carriageway deck of the ramp, already built in front of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (popularly known as the FDC) at a cost of around Tk 9.5 crore, would now have to be demolished, said a project official.
In the stumbling block of concrete mess at Moghbazar, Minhaz Abedin waits patiently every day, worrying about his unemployed son, something he has been doing for the past three years now.
The government yesterday increased the building cost of the Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project by Tk 446.20 crore and extended the completion deadline by 18 months.
What began as the construction of a one-of-a-kind elevated expressway in Dhaka two years ago, the Moghbazar flyover has suffered periods of lags in the making. The traffic situation along the construction site that has turned worse is unlikely to get better until the completion of the structure – not before 2017.
When the afternoon sun was shining down around 2:15pm yesterday, Sagor Hossain started for Farmgate from Shantinagar. He chose that particular time for the journey mainly to avoid the rush-hour traffic.
The extended Moghbazar Flyover ramp near Sonargaon Hotel may make the already crammed street even more congested, according to an expert and project officials. Moreover, a 50-metre carriageway deck of the ramp, already built in front of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (popularly known as the FDC) at a cost of around Tk 9.5 crore, would now have to be demolished, said a project official.
In the stumbling block of concrete mess at Moghbazar, Minhaz Abedin waits patiently every day, worrying about his unemployed son, something he has been doing for the past three years now.
The government yesterday increased the building cost of the Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project by Tk 446.20 crore and extended the completion deadline by 18 months.
What began as the construction of a one-of-a-kind elevated expressway in Dhaka two years ago, the Moghbazar flyover has suffered periods of lags in the making. The traffic situation along the construction site that has turned worse is unlikely to get better until the completion of the structure – not before 2017.
