The Dhaka metro rail will make a stoppage at Pallabi station from January 25. At present, the service runs between Diabari and Agargaon without any stops in between.
MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) said that the station will be opened to the public on the day and the present limitation of carrying only 200 passengers per train will also be relaxed to allow more passengers availing the service.
Commuters will be able to avail of the service till 12:30 pm instead of the present timing of 11:59 am, he said.
He said that the Metro rail has so far provided services to some 90,000 passengers and has earned TK 88 lakh.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Uttara-Agargaon service of Dhaka Metro Rail on December 28 and the next day it was opened for commuters.
Currently, the trains are running on a limited scale and stopping at two of the nine stations on the 11.73-kilometre route. Authorities said that all of the stations will be functional by March 26 this year.
The government will inaugurate the Agargaon-Motijheel section by 2023 and the trains will be operated all the way to Kamalapur by 2025.
A train will take only 38 minutes to reach Motijheel from Uttara. By then, the trains will be able to carry over 60,000 passengers each hour and five lakhs per day.
The DMTCL has been implementing the MRT Line-6 project, popularly known as the metro rail, since 2012.
The following year, a loan agreement was signed with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese development cooperation agency. The main construction work of the project started in 2017.
