Metro Rail to Go for Performance Test Tomorrow

Bangladesh's first overhead metro train will go for performance test on viaduct from Uttara to Agargaon station tomorrow.

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited Managing Director MAN Siddique told a webinar on Thursday.

He hoped that the much-awaited metro train service will be opened from Uttara to Agargaon by December next year.

Earlier, the metro train went for performance test on viaduct from Uattra to Pallabi station on August 29 last and from Uttara to Mirpur 10 on November 29.

The overall progress of construction work of 21.26-kiolomtere-long elevated metro rail service from Uttara to Motijheel-Kamalapur Railway stands at 72.99 percent now, while 89.88 percent civil work between Uttara and Agargaon has been done.

"At present, 11.73 kilometer viaduct, station column and other related works of metro rail between Uttara and Agargaon have been completed," MAN Siddique told BSS here December 5.