Shawdesh Desk:

The Bus Rapid Transit project authorities urged the citizens to use alternative roads avoiding the Airport road for 72 hours starting from Thursday 6:00pm.

In a notice, published on newspapers on Wednesday, the project director ASM Elias Shah said that development work under special management for the road in the project’s airport station area would be done for smooth movement of vehicles permanently.

The development work would be conducted in between Thursday 6:00pm and Sunday 6:00am, the notice said.

Due to development work on the road traffic congestion could be created, it continued.

In this circumstance, all people and transports were requested to use alternative road avoiding the airport corridor, it added.

Five people were killed and two others, all from the same family, were injured on August 15 when a box girder from the project crashed on a car at the Jashim Uddin Avenue area in Uttara on the Dhaka-Mymensingh national highway, one of the busiest roads in the country.

Currently, Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Limited, along with the RHD, Bangladesh Bridge Authority, and the Local Government Engineering Department, is implementing the 20.5-kilometre north section of the Greater Dhaka Sustainable Urban Transport Project on the Gazipur-Airport route.

Following the accident, the ministry formed a probe committee on August 15, which submitted a preliminary report on August 16.

The seven-member committee filed its final report on September 1, identifying 12 reasons for the accident, including working on a public holiday without pre-approval.

The committee spared the project authorities and held Chinese firm China Gezhouba Group Company Limited responsible for the accident.

Lastly the road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on October 16 said that the contractor responsible for the accident would not be allowed to work in Bangladesh anymore after completion of this project.