The First Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, popularly known as Postogola Bridge on the Buriganga river will be opened to traffic from 6am on Saturday after the completion of the renovation works on the important bridge at the entry point of Dhaka.
Repair works have been completed. A load test is being carried out which will be done within night, according to concerned officials.
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) started repair works on the bridge on February 22 and kept the bridge off-limit for heavy vehicles like trucks, pickup vans, covered vans, and lorries since then.
Besides, the bridge remained off-limits to buses, microbuses, cars, and other vehicles in different phases.
The department said that two girders of the Bangladesh-China Friendship Buriganga Bridge-1 were repaired and retrofitted.