Long tailback on Dhaka-Ctg highway due to 3-day holiday

A long tailback was created on the Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Mawa highways of Munshiganj yesterday due to high pressure of vehicles amid holidays, our Munshiganj correspondent reports.

In the morning, an eight-kilometre tailback was created on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway from Meghna bridge.

Vaberchar Highway Police Outpost in Charge SI Md Kamruzzaman said, "Traffice jam has reduced now, but there is a five-kilometer tailback from Meghna bridge to Mugrapara of Sonargaon."

Commuters' pressure was also high in the Shimulia ghat area. Hundreds of vehicles were stuck at the ghat. Many passengers crossed the river by launches and speedboats leaving their buses.

Our Daudkandi correspondent reports, a 30-kilometre-long tailback created on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway from Gozaria upazila of Munshiganj to Kanchpur of Narayanganj also has turned the journey of thousands of passengers into a nightmare.