Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (February 19, 2023) inaugurated the Mirpur-Kalshi flyover to vehicular movement. The flyover has been constructed to ease commute in Mirpur, Mirpur DOHS, Pallabi, Kalshi, Mahakhali, Banani, Uttara and Dhaka airport. The prime minister opened the flyover to traffic from a function at Kalshi intersection, adjoining Balur Math, in Dhaka. The 2,335m long flyover has been built under the Road Widening and Development Project from ECB Square to Mirpur and the Construction of Flyover on Kalshi Circle Project, which got ECNEC approval on January 9, 2018. Read more: Want peace, but ready to resist external attack: PM Hasina Under the project, 3.70km stretch of road from the ECB square to Kalshi was also widened. Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Bangladesh Army (24 Engineer Construction Brigade) implemented the project at a cost of around Tk 1,012 crore. According to the project details, the flyover looks like the English alphabet ‘Y’. The previously four-lane roads have been widened to six lanes to ease commute. Read More: Remove posters, writings from Dhaka’s flyovers in 2 weeks: HC The main four-lane flyover runs from ECB square towards Kalshi and Mirpur DOHS, while a two-lane ramp descends from Kalshi intersection to Kalshi Road. The project also includes extension of a PC girder bridge, construction of two foot bridges, a public toilet, two police boxes, a 7.40 km RCC drain and saucer drain, a 1755m RCC pipe drain, retaining wall, 3383m communication duct, 8 lakh-linear metre sand compaction pile, separate cycle lane, and six bus bays. On her arrival at the venue, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam, Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, Dhaka-16 MP Md Elias Uddin Mollah, and Local Government Division Secretary Muhammad Ibrahim welcomed her. Read More: Flyovers to be constructed in haor region, not roads: Planning Minister.

Six people, including a girl child, were seriously injured as two CNG-run auto-rickshaws crashed into each other on the capital's Mayor Hanif Flyover Wednesday, police said. The incident occurred around 9pm, leaving Ali Hossain, 68, Salma Begum, 56, Aleya Begum, 38, Aleya's daughter Khadeja Akhter,8, Ainul Haque, 50, and CNG driver Abdur Rab, 35, injured, Bacchu Miah, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Police Outpost, said. All the injured are now undergoing treatment at DMCH, he added. Read more: Motorcyclist killed on Mayor Hanif flyover

A 30-year-old man was killed in a road accident on Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover in Dhaka Thursday night, police said. The deceased Munna, a computer operator of a private company, was from Chandpur Sadar upazila. A bus of Thikana Paribahan ran over Munna when he fell on the road after failing to get on the same vehicle around 7:30pm, said Tapas Mandal, sub-inspector (SI) of Wari Police Station. Munna was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he was declared dead at 7:40pm, the SI added. "The body has been kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy." Also read: Worker dies falling off city flyover

Three flyovers from Joydebpur to Alenga to Hatikumrul will be opened for traffic on Monday to control the rush on the roads ahead of Eid, according to Road Transport and Highways Division Secretary Md Nazrul Islam. “I went to inspect these in person yesterday. Opening these three flyovers will solve the traffic problem a lot,” he said. He also hoped that the homebound people will not suffer during the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr. Also read: Eid holidaymakers likely to face tough journey on Dhaka-Paturia highway The secretary said this in a response to a question from reporters at the handing over ceremony of the first phase check of Dhaka Bypass Expressway under construction in a private-public partnership at the Secretariat on Sunday. Nowjor, Safipur and Gorai - these three flyovers are opening tomorrow, informed the secretary.