Three-wheeler workers in Barishal have called a strike on November 4 and 5 demanding authorities to allow their vehicles on the highway.

The metro rail authorities will sign an agreement with BRTC on Wednesday to provide shuttle bus services to metro rail passengers as the country’s first metro rail service is going to be in operation partially from December, with 10 sets of trains.

Just a day ahead of the BNP rally in Rangpur, the district transport owners’ association called for a 36-hour strike on Friday saying that they were protesting against the battery-run three-wheelers on the highways.

The highways and roads of Rangpur are now crowded with the three-wheelers, including battery-run auto-rickshaws, when transport owners are observing strike “to ban” these small vehicles ahead of BNP’s rally in the city today (October 29, 2022).

Travellers suffered a lot due to the bus strike called by Rangpur Motor Malik Samity a day before BNP’s rally in the divisional city.

Rail communications of Chattogram with Dhaka and Sylhet remained suspended for nearly one hour this afternoon (October 28, 2022) as two trains entered the same line from the same direction at Akhaura Railway Junction Station in Brahmanbaria.

Commuters, especially patients of Gaibandha, who need to go to Rangpur Medical College Hospital for treatments, have been facing immense suffering following the ongoing two-day bus strike in Rangpur a day before BNP's rally.

With the capital’s Airport Road becoming a headache for regular commuters as terrible traffic jam paralyses it every day, a parliamentary body has asked the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to keep this road free of congestion or introduce a diversion road to prevent harassment of air passengers.

The movement of inbound buses to Rangpur virtually stopped this evening (October 27, 2022), 12 hours before the bus strike called by local transport owners starting tomorrow at 6:00am.

Bus owners have called for a strike on all routes going in and out of Barishal for November 4 and 5, ahead of a BNP rally in the city’s Bangabandhu Udyan.

During its fourth meeting in February this year, a taskforce -- formed to bring down road crashes and bring discipline in the transport sector -- decided to form a committee to fix the economic service life of commercial vehicles, meaning for how many years they can be used.

Bus owners have threatened to enforce a two-day-long transport strike before the BNP rally in Barishal.

Commuters using the Banani-Gazipur route are facing immense sufferings due to traffic congestion created on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway since this morning (October 26, 2022).

Train services between Sylhet and rest of the country have been restored around four and half hours after being suspended due to a tree having fallen on the rail track through Lawachara National Park at Kamalganj in Moulvibazar.

Roads and Highways Department (RHD) yesterday appointed two China-Bangladesh joint ventures, comprising three firms, for the Dhaka-Sylhet highway expansion project, as physical work is expected to start in December.

Metro rail authorities have hired consultants for the country’s first underground metro rail, a major step towards starting physical works for the project in December this year.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that he has nothing to do if private bus operators call a sudden strike and cause public sufferings.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday expressed serious discontent with the authorities’ failure to fully implement the Road Transport Act-2022 and the long delay in formulating the rules for the act.

A major portion of the newly renovated Kaliganj-Dakbangla road in Kaliganj upazila lies in awful condition for months, causing immense sufferings to the commuters.

While transport leaders held Khulna hostage for the last two days “to wage a war against illegal three-wheelers”, their vociferous demands fizzled out around the time the BNP ended its rally.