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Demand for a 100-year master plan to ease Gazipur traffic congestion; call for review of BRT

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Demand for a 100-year master plan to ease Gazipur traffic congestion; call for review of BRT
Members of Parliament from the district have demanded that a master plan be formulated, taking the next 100 years into consideration, to ease traffic congestion in Gazipur, protect the environment, and ensure planned urbanization. At the same time, they called for a transparent assessment of the future of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project and the expansion of the metro rail and elevated expressway from Dhaka to Gazipur.

Speakers made these demands at a roundtable titled ‘Visible Problems, Vast Potential of Gazipur’ organized by the Dhaka-based Gazipur Journalists Forum at the National Press Club on Saturday (October 24) morning. At the meeting, MP for Gazipur-3 S M Rafiqul Islam, MP for Gazipur-5 A K M Fazlul Haque Milon, MP for Gazipur-1 Md. Mojibur Rahman, and MP for Gazipur-4 Salah Uddin Ayubi, along with local public representatives and administration officials, spoke.

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The keynote paper recommended reconsidering the decision to cancel the BRT project or demolish the infrastructure already built. It also expressed concern over environmental pollution, unplanned industrialization, waterlogging, and filling of agricultural land in Gazipur, and stressed effective steps to restore discipline on the roads and to arrange housing and safe commuting for workers.

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