Staff Reporter :
Anarchy in the public transport sector in the capital will end by 2020, said Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon.
“All buses of the city will come under six companies to ply in 22 routes by the next year to bring discipline on the roads of capital Dhaka,” the mayor said it on Wednesday after a meeting of bus route rationalization committee in the Nagarbhaban.
The bus route rationalization will be completed by next year and 22 bus
routes will be insight by the time, he added.
Sayeed Khokon said also that circular bus services would be launched in Motijheel area by the end of April and in Uttara in May.
They mayor said on April 10 in a separate meeting to remove all old buses from the city in next two years. He said that about 4,500 new buses will be seen in the capital soon.
He said that half of these buses will be air conditioned.
The Dhaka North and South City Corporations launched the circular bus service on March 27 on two routes. As per the plan, four AC buses are plying between Dhanmondi and Azimpur route, and four double-deckers are running between Abdullahpur-Motijheel.
Prime Minister’s SDG Affair’s Secretary SM Abul Kalam Azad, Local Government Secretary Shafiqul Islam, Secretary of Roads and Bridge Ministry Nazrul Islam, BRTC Chairman Farid Uddin, BRTA Chairman Moshiur Rahman, Additional Commissioner of Police Mir Rezaul Alam, DTC Executive Director Rakibur Rahman and Transport Association leaders, among others were present.
Anarchy in the public transport sector in the capital will end by 2020, said Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon.
“All buses of the city will come under six companies to ply in 22 routes by the next year to bring discipline on the roads of capital Dhaka,” the mayor said it on Wednesday after a meeting of bus route rationalization committee in the Nagarbhaban.
The bus route rationalization will be completed by next year and 22 bus
routes will be insight by the time, he added.
Sayeed Khokon said also that circular bus services would be launched in Motijheel area by the end of April and in Uttara in May.
They mayor said on April 10 in a separate meeting to remove all old buses from the city in next two years. He said that about 4,500 new buses will be seen in the capital soon.
He said that half of these buses will be air conditioned.
The Dhaka North and South City Corporations launched the circular bus service on March 27 on two routes. As per the plan, four AC buses are plying between Dhanmondi and Azimpur route, and four double-deckers are running between Abdullahpur-Motijheel.
Prime Minister’s SDG Affair’s Secretary SM Abul Kalam Azad, Local Government Secretary Shafiqul Islam, Secretary of Roads and Bridge Ministry Nazrul Islam, BRTC Chairman Farid Uddin, BRTA Chairman Moshiur Rahman, Additional Commissioner of Police Mir Rezaul Alam, DTC Executive Director Rakibur Rahman and Transport Association leaders, among others were present.
