The vehicular movement on the road from Khilkhet to Kuril and Bashundhara will be closed for 29 hours starting from Thursday evening due to relocation of lines of the utility services for the under-construction first underground metro rail system in Bangladesh.
Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, the implementing agency of the line, issued a press release on Thursday evening in this regard.
The release was signed by Mass Rapid Transit Line 1 project director Md Abul Kashem Bhuiyan.
The release said that for the relocation of the emergency lines of the Titas Gas of the MRT line 鈥� 1 project movement of vehicles would be suspended from the road to Khilkhet towards Kuril and Bashundhara for total 29 hours between 7:00pm on April 17 to till midnight on Friday.
During the time, to avoid possible traffic congestion, instead of using the left side of the Khilkhet-Kuril Flyover road the people are requested to use Kuril Flyover as an alternative by taking U-turn in front of Hotel Radisson or other alternative roads like the Diabari-Mirpur 12 connecting road, the release added.聽
The 31.241-km-long MRT Line-1 between Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and Dhaka (Kamalapur) Railway Station will have two parts 鈥� the Airport Route and the Purbachal Route.
The 19.872-km-long underground Airport Route will have 12 stations and the 11.369-km-long elevated Purbachal Route will cover nine stations.
The airport route will be the first underground metro system in the country.
Construction work of the line was inaugurated on February 2, 2023.
The project cost is around Tk 53,900 crore while the Japan International Cooperation Agency is providing around Tk 39,450 crore as project assistance.
