Dhaka Metro Rail Hemayetpur-Bhatara Link (MRT-5) work to begin on 4 Nov with Agargaon-Motijheel route opening

[Bilal9]

The project was approved in 2019 with an estimated cost of Tk41,238.55 crore to build a 20km line with 13.5 km of underground and 6.5km of elevated sections​

The construction of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-5 (North) project to build metro rail from Savar's Hemayetpur to Dhaka's Bhatara will begin on the same day as the inauguration of Agargaon-Motijheel section of Line-6.

On 4 November, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel from Agargaon to Motijheel on metro rail to inaugurate the service of this section and then she will unveil the replica of the inauguration plaque of MRT Line-5 at the Motijheel station concourse.

"We have completed all of the preparations for the inauguration of services at one infrastructure and the inauguration of construction work at another," ABM Amin Ullah Nuri, Secretary, Road Transport and Highways Division.

"There were discussions about holding two programmes at separate places on different days, but the Prime Minister's Office has proposed to hold two programmes on the same day," he told The Business Standard.

Also, Awami League Organising Secretary Mirza Azam said the premier will address an Awami League meeting at the Motijheel station concourse after the inauguration ceremonies.

The commercial operation of metro rail on the Uttara-Agargaon section was inaugurated last December as part of the Tk33,472 crore MRT Line-6 project. The rapid transit system will cover a 20.1km route after it is inaugurated up to Motijheel.

On Friday, the officials of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), MRT Line-6, and Line-5 attended a rehearsal of the opening ceremony at the Agargaon station premises. Meanwhile, all types of leaves for the officials of both the projects have been suspended until 5 November.

MAN Siddique, the managing director of DMTCL, told TBS that the metro rail service in the Agargaon-Motijheel section will be open to the public from the next day of the inauguration.

Limited service will be introduced initially from 8am to 11am every day with the opening of three new stations—Farmgate, Bangladesh Secretariat and Motijheel.

Number of stations and service time will be increased gradually, he added.

It will take 36.4 minutes to travel from Motijheel to Uttara on the 20.1-kilometer metro rail. Currently, it takes 105 minutes to cover this distance by road. When the full service is launched, passengers will save 68.6 minutes or 65.33% of their travel time on this route, sources said.

The government has decided to extend the project to Kamalapur in the future. If the service is launched in Kamalapur next year, the authorities believe that the daily number of passengers on this line will increase by another 100,000.

Even though the initial two dates for the inauguration of the metro rail in the Agargaon-Motijheel section have been postponed, the work on the three stations that are scheduled to start operation has not yet been completed.

The constructions of entry and exit points, footpath development, and escalator installation at each station are in the final stages. Workers said that it would take a few more days to complete the construction of all these facilities.

Hemayetpur-Bhatara line work to begin with land development

Necessary equipment and human resources have been mobilised to begin soil improvement and land development of the depot in Savar's Hemayetpur, said MRT Line-5 Project Director Aftab Hossain Khan.

Under a deal worth Tk1,189 crore, a joint venture of TAO Corporation of Japan and Spectra Engineers Limited of Bangladesh will start developing a 99.25-acre land for the depot following the inauguration, he added.

The project was approved in 2019 with an estimated cost of Tk41,238.55 crore to build a 20km line with 13.5 km of underground and 6.5km of elevated sections.

Nine stations out of 14 are to be established in underground sections and the remaining stations will be in the elevated section.

DMTCL has set a target to complete the project by 2028. The rail is expected to carry around 1.23 million people every day.

 

[saif]

The project was approved in 2019 with an estimated cost of Tk41,238.55 crore to build a 20km line with 13.5 km of underground and 6.5km of elevated sections​

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The construction of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-5 (North) project to build metro rail from Savar's Hemayetpur to Dhaka's Bhatara will begin on the same day as the inauguration of Agargaon-Motijheel section of Line-6.

On 4 November, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel from Agargaon to Motijheel on metro rail to inaugurate the service of this section and then she will unveil the replica of the inauguration plaque of MRT Line-5 at the Motijheel station concourse.

"We have completed all of the preparations for the inauguration of services at one infrastructure and the inauguration of construction work at another," ABM Amin Ullah Nuri, Secretary, Road Transport and Highways Division.

"There were discussions about holding two programmes at separate places on different days, but the Prime Minister's Office has proposed to hold two programmes on the same day," he told The Business Standard.

Also, Awami League Organising Secretary Mirza Azam said the premier will address an Awami League meeting at the Motijheel station concourse after the inauguration ceremonies.

The commercial operation of metro rail on the Uttara-Agargaon section was inaugurated last December as part of the Tk33,472 crore MRT Line-6 project. The rapid transit system will cover a 20.1km route after it is inaugurated up to Motijheel.

On Friday, the officials of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), MRT Line-6, and Line-5 attended a rehearsal of the opening ceremony at the Agargaon station premises. Meanwhile, all types of leaves for the officials of both the projects have been suspended until 5 November.

MAN Siddique, the managing director of DMTCL, told TBS that the metro rail service in the Agargaon-Motijheel section will be open to the public from the next day of the inauguration.

Limited service will be introduced initially from 8am to 11am every day with the opening of three new stations—Farmgate, Bangladesh Secretariat and Motijheel.

Number of stations and service time will be increased gradually, he added.

It will take 36.4 minutes to travel from Motijheel to Uttara on the 20.1-kilometer metro rail. Currently, it takes 105 minutes to cover this distance by road. When the full service is launched, passengers will save 68.6 minutes or 65.33% of their travel time on this route, sources said.

The government has decided to extend the project to Kamalapur in the future. If the service is launched in Kamalapur next year, the authorities believe that the daily number of passengers on this line will increase by another 100,000.

Even though the initial two dates for the inauguration of the metro rail in the Agargaon-Motijheel section have been postponed, the work on the three stations that are scheduled to start operation has not yet been completed.

The constructions of entry and exit points, footpath development, and escalator installation at each station are in the final stages. Workers said that it would take a few more days to complete the construction of all these facilities.

Hemayetpur-Bhatara line work to begin with land development

Necessary equipment and human resources have been mobilised to begin soil improvement and land development of the depot in Savar's Hemayetpur, said MRT Line-5 Project Director Aftab Hossain Khan.

Under a deal worth Tk1,189 crore, a joint venture of TAO Corporation of Japan and Spectra Engineers Limited of Bangladesh will start developing a 99.25-acre land for the depot following the inauguration, he added.

The project was approved in 2019 with an estimated cost of Tk41,238.55 crore to build a 20km line with 13.5 km of underground and 6.5km of elevated sections.

Nine stations out of 14 are to be established in underground sections and the remaining stations will be in the elevated section.

DMTCL has set a target to complete the project by 2028. The rail is expected to carry around 1.23 million people every day.

Our entire metro rail project is being implemented by Japan. Why aren't we involving China in the project? China can implement the project cheaper.

 

[IndianLite]

Our entire metro rail project is being implemented by Japan. Why aren't we involving China in the project? China can implement the project cheaper.

You have to maximise benefits from all.

Japanese loans are cheaper but the funds are limited.

Chinese loans are a bit more expensive but funds are unlimited.

 

[Bilal9]

Our entire metro rail project is being implemented by Japan. Why aren't we involving China in the project? China can implement the project cheaper.

It is actually not dependent on cheaper vs. costlier. It is on Govt. to Govt. Agreement.

JICA , a govt. body in Japan, proposed the project to Bangladesh Govt. per ADB study (Greater Dhaka Sustainable Urban Transport Corridor) and arranged financing on behalf of Kawasaki who manufactures the Metro Railway components. They are providing a loan on very easy terms.

The Chinese Govt. provided loans on other projects, also on easy terms. Some $40 Billions worth. They have by far the lion's share of Bangladesh mega-project implementations (bridges, roads, tunnels, power stations. So Chinese contractors should not be unhappy.

Ultimately, the whole Dhaka Metro project will benefit from being sourced from one standard, a Japanese standard. The Japanese also enlisted other companies (some Indian, like L&T for minor part in the project, as well as that from Thailand, Ital-Thai, for the viaducts) which follow Japanese standards in Thailand and India. If there are metro projects done in Chittagong or Sylhet, those will for sure be open tender and the Chinese can compete.

 

[mig25]

Why does India that has more poor than the the African subcontinent, a country that can't build toilets, a country whose GDP per capita lacks severely when compared to Bangladesh have such a vast network when compare to super-duper-hyper power called Bangladesh?

The suuper-duper-hyper manufacturing behemoth that can print circuit boards and make their own world leading wonton phones not make their own rail cars and metro equipment?

As always, Big talk, super low achievement!

 

[Bilal9]

Why does India that has more poor than the the African subcontinent, a country that can't build toilets, a country whose GDP per capita lacks severely when compared to Bangladesh have such a vast network when compare to super-duper-hyper power called Bangladesh?

The suuper-duper-hyper manufacturing behemoth that can print circuit boards and make their own world leading wonton phones not make their own rail cars and metro equipment?

As always, Big talk, super low achievement!

As usual - you talk from your rear end.

The scale of public transport is far higher in India than in Bangladesh. There are far higher number of Metros in India (probably 30 plus) when we have just one. If you breed like rats, you need metros to carry these rats.

No one will invest in a metro or rail-car industry with low or zero returns for a few rail cars or metro equipment in Bangladesh. It makes zero economic sense.

What we need in Bangladesh, we will import.

I am tired of educating ghatiya semi-educated people.

@waz, @LeGenD bhais, usual thread-hijacking off-topic post from an Indian troll.

 

[mig25]

When you come wagging that stinky tail of your's in the Indian thread, why can't we show how underdevlooped your nation is?

 

[X-ray Papa]

When you come wagging that stinky tail of your's in the Indian thread, why can't we show how underdevlooped your nation is?

Go drink cow urine, road shitter.

 

[Bilal9]

Just to elucidate, MRT Line 1 construction (soil improvement and development for the MRT-1 depot in Purbachal) has already started.

MRT Line 1 (Dhaka Metro Rail) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

MRT-1 will finish way sooner than MRT-5, the subject of this thread.

 

[saif]

If there are metro projects done in Chittagong or Sylhet, those will for sure be open tender and the Chinese can compete.

Japan is too close to India and that is a matter of concern for us. I hope the Chinese govt. would come forward to implement metro projects in other districts of Bangladesh.

 

[IndianLite]

Japan is too close to India and that is a matter of concern for us. I hope the Chinese govt. would come forward to implement metro projects in other districts of Bangladesh.

BD has to utilise all of the cheap Japanese loans.

It is limited and hence need to be utilised in full.

Plus Japanese built projects are of high quality, corruption free and always delivered on time.

 

[saif]

BD has to utilise all of the cheap Japanese loans.

It is limited and hence need to be utilised in full.

Plus Japanese built projects are of high quality, corruption free and always delivered on time.

I am not against Japanese investment but I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket. That's why I want Chinese investment in our metro project.