The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) recently submitted a proposal to the Planning Commission seeking to boost the project's budget by 55% to Tk6,597.32 crore. If approved, this would mark the ...

The Dhaka Metro MRT system was subsequently conceived to provide more transport options. The project aims to be combined with the bus rapid transit (BRT) and mass rapid transit (MRT) projects.

Recently Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority in association with Expressions Ltd. and The Daily Star organised a roundtable on "Role of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as a Traffic Solution for Dhaka ...

Bangladesh is all set to step into a new era of commuting with a new mode of public transport that has never been seen before -- the electricity-powered metro rail of Dhaka.

The government is making progress in developing the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines aimed at easing the traffic congestion in the capital city and its surrounding areas, according to official ...

The government is set to begin the construction of much talked about mega projects Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), also known as metro rail, and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Dhaka on Sunday. “Prime Minister ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide a loan of $33.26m to design the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line 5 (Southern Route) in Bangladesh.

“We will surely go to the Prime Minister’s Office by MRT,” he said at the inauguration of the construction works of MRT, mass rapid transit, in Dhaka on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...

The registration and reissuance of the Mass Rapid Transit, or MRT, pass for metro travel in Dhaka has been temporarily suspended for one week. The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, or DMTCL ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT Line)-6 of the metro rail from the capital Dhaka's Uttara to Agargaon area at a function in the city.

MRT Line-6 will consist of 16 stations along approximately 20km of elevated tracks extending from north to south of Dhaka City.