Overview | |
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Location | MES Square, Airport Road, Dhaka |
Coordinates | 23°48′58″N 90°24′20″E / 23.8161°N 90.4056°E |
Status | open |
Operation | |
Work begun | 12 August 2018 |
Opened | 12 January 2022 |
Owner | Dhaka North City Corporation |
Character | pedestrian tunnel |
Technical | |
Design engineer | 24 Engineer Brigade, Bangladesh Army |
Length | 42 meters |
Tunnel clearance | 15 meters |
Sursoptok Underpass ( Bengali: সুরসপ্তক আন্ডারপাস) is a pedestrian underpass located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of four underpasses in Dhaka. [a] The underpass with 15 meter high, 135 meters long, 5 meters, four 42 meter long tunnels [2] [3] is currently the largest underpass in Bangladesh. [4] Prior to its construction, Gulistan underpass was the largest underpass in the country. [1]
The underpass is located near Kurmitola General Hospital and Radisson Hotel at the MES square of Airport road, adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College in Dhaka. [5] [6] [7]
The safe road movement started in 2018 after a road accident took the lives of two students in the underpass area. The government ordered the construction of underpass under the accident prone road [8] per the demands raised by the protesters. [6] the Inauguration of the underpass's construction happened in August 14 days after the accident. Although the protesters requested that the underpass be named after the dead students, [9] it was named Sursoptok in honor of the seven heroes. [2] The underpass, delayed due to the corona outbreak, [10] was inaugurated four years after construction began. [11]
Box pushing technology was used [12] in the underpass's construction by the 24 Engineer Brigade of Bangladesh Army. The construction cost for the underpass was Taka 57 crore, [13] and it has a museum. [10]
Overview | |
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Location | MES Square, Airport Road, Dhaka |
Coordinates | 23°48′58″N 90°24′20″E / 23.8161°N 90.4056°E |
Status | open |
Operation | |
Work begun | 12 August 2018 |
Opened | 12 January 2022 |
Owner | Dhaka North City Corporation |
Character | pedestrian tunnel |
Technical | |
Design engineer | 24 Engineer Brigade, Bangladesh Army |
Length | 42 meters |
Tunnel clearance | 15 meters |
Sursoptok Underpass ( Bengali: সুরসপ্তক আন্ডারপাস) is a pedestrian underpass located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of four underpasses in Dhaka. [a] The underpass with 15 meter high, 135 meters long, 5 meters, four 42 meter long tunnels [2] [3] is currently the largest underpass in Bangladesh. [4] Prior to its construction, Gulistan underpass was the largest underpass in the country. [1]
The underpass is located near Kurmitola General Hospital and Radisson Hotel at the MES square of Airport road, adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College in Dhaka. [5] [6] [7]
The safe road movement started in 2018 after a road accident took the lives of two students in the underpass area. The government ordered the construction of underpass under the accident prone road [8] per the demands raised by the protesters. [6] the Inauguration of the underpass's construction happened in August 14 days after the accident. Although the protesters requested that the underpass be named after the dead students, [9] it was named Sursoptok in honor of the seven heroes. [2] The underpass, delayed due to the corona outbreak, [10] was inaugurated four years after construction began. [11]
Box pushing technology was used [12] in the underpass's construction by the 24 Engineer Brigade of Bangladesh Army. The construction cost for the underpass was Taka 57 crore, [13] and it has a museum. [10]