A bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor takes three years to open to traffic in Asian countries and Bangladesh's first such project was scheduled for completion in four years from 2012. Eleven years on, the work on the 20.5km BRT between Dhaka airport and Joydebpur of Gazipur is still going on, with the project cost shooting up to Tk4,268 crore from the original Tk2,040
The bus that went off the Dhaka-Bhanga expressway and crashed killing 19 people yesterday should have been taken off the roads four months ago when the authorities suspended its permits following a fatal crash.