Gabtoli-Swarighat road to get 4 lanes: Minister
The 11-kilometre Gabtoli-Swarighat road will be expanded to four-lane and a tender in this regard will be invited in two weeks.
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader announced this while visiting the road yesterday.
He said the expansion work will be implemented in two phases. The six-kilometre road from Gabtoli to Hazaribagh will be upgraded in the first phase, he added.
An estimated Tk 72 crore will be needed to upgrade the road which has been very crucial due to increasing number of vehicles, especially goods carrying trucks. Once upgraded, it will help reduce the existing traffic congestion in the old part of the capital.
Quader expressed his unhappiness to see dumping of wastage on both sides of the road, which further narrowed the thoroughfare.
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