It has been one year since authorities announced construction of a multi-purpose truck terminal at the capital’s Tejgaon to accommodate all trucks and keep Satrasta-Tejgaon road free of vehicles.

NXT Air, a new cargo airline in the country, will start operations from next year.

The government is finally going to inaugurate the bus service from Ghatarchar-Kanchpur under one authority from December 26, after missing three earlier deadlines.

The government has again relaxed the experience requirements to obtain driving licences for heavy and medium vehicles, following transport leaders’ demand.

Fifty new buses – 20 of Trans Sliva and 30 of BRTC – will be launched on the Ghatarchar to Kanchpur via Motijheel and Signboard routes on December 26, said Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today.

Leaders and activists of Munshiganj’s Sreenagar Government College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, who were deprived of posts in the newly announced college committee, blocked Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Munshiganj for nearly an hour today.

A balanced and multimodal-based transport system is a must for sustainable development of the country, said speakers at a seminar yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed authorities concerned to locate illegal three-wheelers plying across the country and take necessary steps to remove them from the roads.

Police have foiled the hunger strike by agitating students demanding half fare at all public transport across the country and safe roads yesterday.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of the government to identify illegal three-wheeler easy-bikes plying across the country and to take necessary steps to remove them.

Students of various schools and colleges observed hunger strike in front of the Secretariat in Dhaka today, to press home their nine-point demand.

A concrete bridge, which titled before its inauguration more than four years ago, in Mymensingh Sadar upazila still remain unrepaired, causing suffering to thousands of people living in nearby villages.

The government in May 2018 approved a project for constructing a rail line from Faridpur to Magura even before carrying out a feasibility study.

A portion of a newly-constructed bridge on Naaldiga river in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila has collapsed a few weeks ago, disrupting vehicular movement and causing sufferings to locals.

Students protesting for safe roads have said that the gazette notification on half bus fare was “unrealistic” and demanded half fare on all modes of public transport across the country without any condition.

The country’s first ever metro rail will go on its commercial operation in the Uttara-Agargaon section on December 16 -- the Victory Day -- next year.

Eight owners and companies have shown interest to run 157 buses on the route from Ghatarchar to Kanchpur on a pilot basis which is scheduled to be inaugurated from December 26.

Country's first ever metro rail will start its commercial operation from December 16 next year.

Bangladesh Railway has sought Russian funds in five projects that include Dhaka-Chattogram high-speed rail line project and the Bhanga-Payra rail line project.

All was going well for Shiuly Begum. A serene family life with her bus driver husband and four children, this was all that she had hoped for.