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Another 225 buses will run on 3 new Dhaka routes

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 23 Mar 2022, 12:13 am

Dhaka, March 23: The Bus Route Rationalization Committee has decided to launch 225 more buses on three new routes in the capital. All preparatory work in this regard will be completed within the next 90 days. The decision was taken at noon on Tuesday (March 22) at the 22nd meeting of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Nagar Bhaban Committee.

After the meeting, Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, convener of the Bus Route Rationalization Committee and Mayor of DSCC, told reporters that out of the three new routes, 50 buses on Route 22, 100 buses on Route 23 and 75 buses on Route 27 will be unloaded.

Route 22 includes from Ghatarchar to Bochila, Mohammadpur Town Hall, Farmgate, Karwan Bazar, Shahbagh to Sultana Kamal Bridge; Route 23 covers from Bochhila to Mohammadpur Shia Mosque, Shyamoli, Kamalapur via Kanchpur and Route 27 covers Ghatarchar to Palashi Junction, Postagola to Kadamtali.

On December 26 last year, the Bus Route Rationalization Committee launched a bus service called 'Dhaka Nagar Paribahan' on the Kanchpur route from Ghatarchar in Keraniganj to Narayanganj. Then the experimental journey started on this route with 50 buses. At that time, two mayors of Dhaka City (Atiqul Islam and Fazle Noor Taposh) said that 50 more buses would be launched on this route in the next two months. About three months have passed since then but 50 buses have not yet landed in the second phase.

Asked about this, DSCC Mayor Taposh told reporters that 20 more buses will be launched on this route in the next one month. In addition, a private company has been proposed to land 50 more buses at the same time.

Atiqul Islam, a member of the Bus Route Rationalization Committee and mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation, told reporters after the meeting that they were moving ahead with the aim of finalizing the buses within the next 90 days as part of unloading buses on the three new routes. After the completion of these works, 250 new buses will be launched on three routes by fixing the date and time.