Tejgaon Airport
Have we learnt to prioritize our needs? Right now it is the choice between the smooth establishment of the Metro and an old airport being used by the BAF. In the unlikely event of hostilities, they may not last 10 minutes in the air, if they are able to take-off in the first place. The Metro, if it ever becomes a reality, will provide fast, comfortable, convenient and cheap transit for the masses, who now clog the jugular of Dhaka every day. Hundreds of acres of unutilised prime land in the heart of Dhaka could provide much needed east-west connecting roads, low-cost housing and industrial/commercial enterprises. Soon a third international airport might be rammed down the throats of the nation, and we will be left gasping at another derelict institution.
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