Atiqul made the announcement while visiting the current terminal and meeting with leaders of truck owners association. I have directed DNCC officials concerned to submit a proposal to Bangladesh Railway for getting around 21 bighas of land from the transport agency and forming a project to construct a multi-purpose truck terminal, he said.
As the number of trucks has been increasing day by day, the new multi-storey terminal will be a permanent solution, he claimed.
Around 2,000 trucks would be able to park at the multi-purpose terminal simultaneously, and around 5,000 trucks would be able to use it every day, he added.
Atiqul said floors of the new structure may be both under and above the ground, and the terminal will not be for inter-district trucks.
Senior Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 20 Dec 2020 10:38 PM BdST
Updated: 20 Dec 2020 10:38 PM BdST
Dhaka North City Corporation or DNCC authorities have built three new U-turns to aid the proper management of traffic in the capital. );
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The busy roads were opened in front of Tejgaon’s BG Press, intersection at Nabisco-Kohinoor Chemicals and Banani’s Chairman Bari area on Sunday.
DNCC built them as part of a project to construct 11 U-turns in the stretch from Tejgaon’s Satrasta to Uttara House Building area. So far six of them have been unveiled including ones at Kawla, in front of Uttara RAB-1 office and Jashimuddin intersection.
The Daily Star got the insight of the hard-pressed waste management scenario during a recent visit.
Established with Japanese assistance in 2006, the site was planned as a sanitary landfill. A very few things, however, were done according to the design. The leachate collection pond and treatment plant were non-functional till 2018, while the recycling plant still exists only on paper. There is no heavy equipment to give the daily soil covering.
As there is no manpower for waste segregation and recycling, the landfill authorities allow in hundreds of waste pickers, who collect recyclable materials from the dumped garbage.
These extremely poor people, many of whom are women and children, come from nearby villages and stay at the landfill from 8:00am to 6:00pm every day.