Having initially missed the deadline to being construction the government has finally started work on the Dhaka elevated expressway.
The expressway starts at the Dhaka airport and will continue through Mohakhali, Tejgaon and Moghbazar to Kamalapur Railway station and connect to the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway through Jatrabari.
The construction will be completed by 2019-2020 as part of the first phase of RSTP. The other five expressways would be build under the second (2020-2025) and third phase (2025-2035) of RSTP.
The government has completed the feasibility study of second expressway which would be built between Ashulia and Dhaka airport and connected to Dhaka elevated expressway at Dhaka airport.
The Dhaka-Mymensingh expressway proposed in the RSTP will connect to Dhaka elevated expressway while the Dhaka-Chittagong expressway would be connected at the Kutubkhali area of Dhaka elevated expressway.
The RSTP also suggests connecting the Dhaka elevated expressway with the proposed Dhaka Mawa flyover at Jatrabari along with the Dhaka-Sylhet flyover connecting at Kanchpur point.
The expected speed of traffic movement is 100 kilometres per hour once all six expressways are completed. Although this will likely take another 20 years to be completed, the government hopes that by initiating such large scale traffic management schemes Dhaka will begin to experience the benefits of being a middle income country.