Metro rail to start making stop at Pallabi from Jan 25

The Dhaka Mass Transit Company authorities on Monday announced that the metro rail will make a stop at Pallabi Station from January 25.

Pallabi Station of metro rail will begin all kinds of operational activities from January 25 and the platform will be opened for the public on that day, MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL) said at a press conference held at Probashi Kallyan Bhaban, in Dhaka.

The operation of the metro rail will begin from 8:30am instead of 8am and will continue until 12:30pm every day, he said, adding that the train will run with all passengers who will remain present at the station intending to travel.

The country’s commuting system entered a new era as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the first-ever metro rail service in the capital on December 28.

She inaugurated the operation of the first phase of the project-- Uttara to Agargaon—around 11:00 am from Uttara sector-15 playground.

A day after the inauguration, around 90 thousand people travelled through the metro rail till January 8, Siddique said at the press conference.

According to Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), the rail operation to Motijheel may start by the end of 2024, and Kamalapur by 2025. By December 2024, the metro rail will start operation from Agargaon to Kamalapur route with 24 trains.

As the train will run at the speed of 100km per hour it will take 38 to 40 minutes to reach Kamalapur from Agargaon crossing--a distance of 21.16 Kilometres.

The Metrorail project was taken up in 2012 and a loan agreement in this regard was signed with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese development cooperation agency, the following year.

The main construction work of the project started in 2017.