Locals as well as businesses operating transport services on Patuakhali-Barisal Highway, running across the Payra river, are urging the authorities to revise the steep toll rates that have been posted ahead of the formal inauguration of the newly-built Payra bridge.

Although it was declared abandoned over a decade ago, the bridge on the main canal of the Ganges-Kobadak (GK) Irrigation Project on Kushtia-Pragpur road in Bheramara upazila is yet to be removed and there is still no initiative to replace it with a new one. Vehicles are plying over the bridge taking an immense risk.

The bridge constructed over the Payra river in Lebukhali area on Patuakhali-Barishal highway will open to traffic tomorrow.

The first batch of operations and maintenance staff and officials of Dhaka Metro Rail is undergoing training at the prestigious Delhi Metro Rail Academy (DMRA) in Shastri Park Depot in east Delhi.

The government has officially abandoned its decade-long plan to build an expressway on the Dhaka-Chattogram corridor, a crucial cog for the Bangladesh economy, under public-private partnership -- after shelling out Tk 100 crore on a feasibility study and getting a detailed design.

Several thousands people of at least seven villages under Nagarpur upazila of the district have been suffering for long due to lack of a concrete bridge on a branch of the Dhaleswari river.

The traffic at Paturia ferry terminal in Manikganj further increased yesterday as the movement of heavy vehicles remained shut on Banglabazar-Shimulia naval route.

Hundreds of vehicles are waiting at Paturia ferry ghat in Manikganj to cross the Padma River as the pressure of vehicles has increased at Paturia ferry ghat due to a ban on heavy vehicles at Shimulia-Banglabazar route.

The expansion work of Nalka Bridge, on the western end of the Bangabandhu Bridge, has caused a long tailback since Wednesday.

Savar’s Namabazar Road is a busy place. Every day, people from at least 20 areas of Dhamrai upazila and Savar municipality use the road, which connects to different points of Dhaka-Aricha highway and Savar-Singair regional highway.

The pressure of vehicles has increased at Paturia ferry ghat in Manikganj due to a ban on heavy vehicles at Shimulia-Banglabazar route.

Hundred of goods laden trucks are having to wait in line at Kazirhat ferry terminal every day to cross the Kazirhat-Aricha waterway as authorities have replaced two new ferries on the route with two old ones.

The BIWTC yesterday suspended ferry services on the Shimulia-Banglabazar route due to strong currents in the Padma.

Due to strong currents in the Padma river, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) has suspended ferry service between Shimulia in Munshiganj and Banglabazar in Madaripur.

Forty-eight steel guards have been placed around the two main pillars of the Payra bridge to protect them from collisions.

Six bridges over Badura canal in Shankorpasa union under Pirojpur Sadar upazila have been lying broken for over seven years, causing immense sufferings to people.

The authorities yesterday operated metro train on viaduct for the second time as part of a series of test runs to be done before the new mode of public transport is formally launched in the capital.

Construction of the tunnel under the Karnaphuli river reached a major milestone with completion of boring on Thursday afternoon.

Pressure of vehicles increased at both Paturia and Shimulia ferry terminals due to puja vacations coninciding with the weekend.

Two ends of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel were brought together under the Karnaphuli river yesterday afternoon.