There are also design complications in the Kamalapur railway station area, where the Bangladesh Railway (BR) will implement a multi-modal transport hub.Īccording to the design, a toll plaza of DEE will be constructed in the Kamalapur railway station area. The piling of the expressway is now in the process of being redesigned, he added.Īs a result of the redesign, the cost of the expressway is likely to increase further and the launch of the second section (from Banani to Moghbazar) will be disrupted. Mostafizur Rahman, deputy managing director of the DEE, said the piling work of the elevated expressway in the BFDC Rail-gate area had to be stopped as it would hamper the placement of tubes for the metro rail. The metro rail is supposed to pass under the elevated expressway in the BFDC Rail Gate area of Karwan Bazar. The underground metro rail (MRT-5, southern route) will be constructed from Gabtoli in Dhaka to Aftabnagar via Asad Gate, Russell Square, Panthapath, Hatirjheel and Niketan. The length of the main expressway is 19.7km, but it also includes 31 entry and exit ramps. The DEE is being constructed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka to Shonir Akhra on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway. On condition of anonymity, BBA officials said the 2023 deadline was also unlikely to be met as work on the Banani-Moghbazar section is less than 30% complete, and the Moghbazar- Shonir Akhra section less than 5%. Italian-Thai Development Limited (Italy-Thai), a Thailand-based contractor, is constructing the expressway in association with China’s Shandong International Economic and Technical Corporation Group Limited, and Sino-Hydro Corporation Limited.Īccording to the concession agreement signed between the BBA and Italian-Thai, the bridge was supposed to be completed within three and a half years. The Tk8,940 crore project is being implemented under public-private partnership initiative, with the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) as the main implementing agency. The bridge is scheduled for completion in 2023. It was revised for the first time in 2013 and then again in 2015 due to changes to the design and problems with funding. The DEE project contract was signed on January 19, 2011. The design flaws mainly revolve around conflicts with other transport systems that are being implemented, including the Metro Rail and Subway projects.
The overall progress of the project remains below 50% even though the construction was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina nearly a decade ago.
Work on the rest of the bridge has been progressing at a snail’s pace as it has been hampered by major design flaws. After missing several deadlines, the government has decided to launch the Dhaka airport-Banani section of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE) in December this year as progress on the section is over 70% complete.
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