No heavy vehicles will be allowed to use Sonahat Bridge in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram for five days due to repair work, officials said on Saturday. The repair work began on Friday evening and will continue till July 27, the local administration said in a release. The repair work will be carried out from evening till morning daily. Plying of all kinds of Dhaka-bound and Sonahat-bound goods-laden trucks and other heavy vehicles will remain suspended during this period. However, light vehicles can ply on the bridge during the daytime. Also read: Floods damage 1600 km roads, bridges in Sylhet: Govt estimate Md Nazrul Islam, executive engineer of Kurigram Roads and Highways Department, said the plates of the bridge have become vulnerable and so "the repair work is being carried out".  

Commuters had a harrowing time on Wednesday morning as rush-hour traffic crawled on the Natore-Pabna highway clogged with a long tailback stretching over 20km. Police attributed the snarls on the high-speed corridor to the huge pressure of vehicles on the roads in the wake of the government easing the Covid-19 lockdown curbs. Also, repair work on the railway tracks passing through the area added to the woes of the motorists. Read: 25 km long tailback on Dhk-Ctg highway Mozaffar Hossain, officer-in-charge of the Banpara Highway police station, said that the railway authorities shut the Muladuli level crossing on Tuesday morning to carry out the repair work, forcing people to take a detour via the highway. Traffic on the highway, however, normalised around noon after the railway authorities opened the level crossing following the repair work, said the OC.

Hundreds of vehicles and commuters got stuck for hours in a 25-kilometer long tailback on Dhaka-Chattogram highway on Tuesday due to repair work of Langalbandh Bridge in Narayanganj district. Mohammad Maniruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Narayanganj Highway Police said the gridlock stretched from Shanir Akhra to Daudkandi in Cumilla. Also read: Eid holiday rush leads to 12km tailback on Dhaka-Aricha highway “The gridlock was caused by heavy pressure of goods-laden vehicles and others on Sonargaon-Nabiganj route. We are trying our best to ease the movement of vehicles,” he said.

Motorists planning to drive on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway have been asked to refrain from using Langalband Bridge on the road for three days due to its repair work, starting on Monday. Read:RMG workers block Dhaka-Sylhet, Dhaka-Chattogram highways demanding salaries The authorities concerned will carry out repair work on the bridge from 8 am on Monday till 12 noon on Wednesday (July 14), said a handout issued by Roads and Highways Department. People travelling with light vehicles have been asked to use Mograpara-Kaikartek Bridge-Nabiganj-Madanpur route and those using heavy vehicles to take Kanchpur-Bhulta-Narsingdi-Bhairab Bridge-Sarail-Brahmanbaria-Cumilla as alternative routes during the period. Read: 5-km long tailback on Dhaka-Chattogram highway The Langalband Bridge will be fit for the movement of vehicles after 12 pm on Wednesday, the media release added.