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Rajshahi city dwellers got another illuminated road-crossing as the city corporation brought the crossing under a high mast pole with a lighting system on Wednesday night.
The crossing at Choddopaya area, which was recently constructed as part of building the 6.793-kilometre east-west connecting road from Alif Lam Meem Bhata crossing on Rajshahi-Naogaon highway to Choddopaya crossing on Rajshahi-Natore highway via Chhotobangram, Meherchandi, Budhpara and Mohanpur.
A total of 15 energy-saving LED bulbs were installed on the 40-feet high mast pole.
City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton accompanied by others concerned switched on the lights on Wednesday night.
Earlier, 16 road crossings were illuminated with a 52-feet high mast pole with a lighting system.
On July 3 last, he also inaugurated the illumination process by switching on the lights and cutting the ribbon in the Budpara area after completion of installing 37 decorated and eye-catching lights on 37 poles on the 202.5-metre flyover excluding the 120-metre ramp on the same road.
A few months back, the city dwellers got another illuminated 2.5-kilometre street from Kalpana Cinema Hall crossing to Talaimary crossing, which was recently elevated to a four-lane with a median and a 2.20-metre wide footpath on both sides at a cost of around Tk 127.5 crore.
A total of 130 electric poles on the island of the road were erected and each of the poles has 13 modern lights.
Apart from this, 180 garden lights were installed on the embankment along the south side of the road.
The city corporation has brought the walkway on the city protection embankment under lighting as it has constructed the walkway and installed 40 decorated and eye-catching lights on 40 poles.
It has also recently brought the newly-constructed 4-kilometre four-lane west road from Bihash to Nader Hazi crossing under electrification.
Another 2.5-kilometre portion of the four-lane road has also been brought under the modern lighting facilities with the installation of 174 modern LED bulbs on 87 poles at a cost of around Tk 2.25 crore.
The city corporation has installed and launched a modern and eye-catching lighting system on the 4.2-kilometre Bilsimla-Kasiadanga road to ensure the security of people and vehicles during the nighttime movement in the city. A total of 174 high-altitude poles were installed with 384 power-saving LED bulbs in the shape of flying butterflies at a cost of around Tk 5.22 crore.
To make Rajshahi city more bright and attractive at night, the high altitude floodlights were installed in the city street.
