Elevated expressway
The government has decided that Dhaka city will have elevated expressway from Narayanganj to Hazrat Shahjalal Airport touching all important points within the city to reduce traffic jam. Everyone should welcome this decision. This is a good proposal to solve the public transport problem. We have very limited road link compared to the standard cities of world. In general this will be constructed over the existing main roads having columns on the middle of roads, so paying compensation for acquiring new land will be minimum. We have steel, cement factories and sources of stone chips within our country. Moreover, some firms have concrete mixer carrying transports, so it will be easy to carry concrete mixer. Casting can be done at night so that work will be quick without traffic jam. It will be highly appreciated if the designers consider having two tracks on the same column top. Each trip will carry around 60-100 passengers in 2-3 compartments at best. But monorail should be available at an interval of 10 minutes from each direction. To pass passengers from one direction monorail to another monorail of opposite direction one must get upstairs to pass overbridge from one side of a station to the other side to catch the monorail of opposite side. So each station will have two-storied buildings, first floor for elevated track and second floor for crossing track.
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