Elevated Railway
DU proposes alternative route on the campus
Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday proposed an alternative route for the city’s proposed elevated railway that goes over the campus from Shahbagh to Chankharpool.
The railway route is planned to run from Shahbagh intersection through TSC, the Central Shaheed Minar, and Dhaka Medical College & Hospital to Chankharpool.
The university authorities, on the other hand, recommended that the railroad go straight from Shahbagh through Doel Chattar to Chankharpool.
DU authorities yesterday held a view-exchange meeting with the experts of the elevated railway project called Mass Rapid Transit (MRT).
The request was made considering the security and beauty of the campus and the Shaheed Minar.
According to the plan proposed by Dhaka Transport Coordinate Board (DTCB) experts, one station will be built near Jagannath Hall on DU campus and the other at Chankharpol intersection.
DU Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique said the project will certainly help reduce traffic congestion in the capital and it should be implemented as early as possible.
“There will be three dormitories of female students alongside the route DTCB has planned; so it has been a matter of our girl students’ privacy too,” he said.
