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The Dhaka Circular Railway (Bengali: ঢাকা চক্ররেল, romanized: Dhaka Chokrorel) is a proposed orbital suburban rail system which is expected to serve Dhaka and Greater Dhaka once completed, and reduce traffic marginally in the city. The project is being considered for investment by South Korea and implemented by Bangladesh ...
The World Bank helped to develop this plan, which proposed the construction of five MRT lines in Dhaka. [2] The five metro lines were MRT Line 1, MRT Line 2, MRT Line 4, MRT Line 5 and MRT Line 6. [3] In 2017, an agreement was signed between the government of Bangladesh and Japan to build MRT Line 4 on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. [4]
Bangladesh considered building a high-speed rail link between Dhaka and Chittagong in 2005. The government short-listed France's SNCF and Japan Railways for the project, [100] which was ultimately abandoned. In 2014, Spain and China were interested in developing the Bangladesh Railway into a high-speed network. [101]
To implement Dhaka's 20-year-long Strategic Transport Plan, the government of Bangladesh invited the Japan International Cooperation Agency to conduct a primary survey and feasibility study on the transport system of Dhaka in 2009–2010. In 2012, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved the project.
On May 31, 2018, Bangladesh Railway signed an agreement with the China Railway Design Corporation and Mazumder Enterprise. [3] This contract is designed to verify the design and feasibility of proposed high-speed train lines. According to this agreement, feasibility and design work will be completed in December 2019 at a cost of Tk102.10 crore.
In 2005, the World Bank published a study report, recommending that the government of Bangladesh build a mass transit system in Dhaka. In the same year, American consultancy firm Louis Berger Group prepared a strategic transport plan for Dhaka. [2] The World Bank helped to develop this plan, which proposed the construction of five MRT lines in ...
In 2005, the World Bank published a study report, recommending that the government of Bangladesh build a mass transit system in Dhaka. In the same year, American consultancy firm Louis Berger Group prepared a strategic transport plan for Dhaka. [2] The World Bank helped to develop this plan, which proposed the construction of five MRT lines in ...
In August 2018, Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) appointed a Spanish consulting company to conduct the feasibility study and preliminary design of Dhaka Subway. [2] Initial plan was to construct a subway network of 90km, consisting of four lines, with stations spaced at an average distance of approximately one kilometer.