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   Bangladesh
Dhaka-Cox Bullet Train Project: Cost, future gain & commoners reach should be kept in mind
  Date : 29-03-2024

MA Khaleque Khandker

Our minds started to bounce with joy as soon as we heard the Bullet Train will run back and forth between Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar covering 350 km on fly over and at the speed of about 350 km/hour. It is, as it were, a dream comes true.  

The feasibility survey in this regard is almost finished. The bullet train will run on Its track, which will be ballast less or stone less. The train will run on electricity instead of oil or coal. Five ultra-modern or sophisticated rail stations will be erected along with the fly over route. All of this information is known from the ministry of railway communications very recently.

It is also learnt that the final design from Dhaka- Chottogram bullet train project will be submitted so soon. The source again said, five sophisticated railway stations will be set up at Dhaka, Narayanganj, Cummila, Feini, Pahartoli of Chottogram in the style of Europe. All the modern facilities will be inserted and included in these stations. There will be no station in between Pahartoli and Cox’s Bazar. The most sophisticated station of the project will be established at Cox’s Bazar, the source also informed.

The primary cost of the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar Bullet Train Project is estimated to 150 thousand crore taka but this expenditure may increase later, the source further said.

But many experts and non-experts in this field assess the matter in different ways. They say, where there are myriad of problems in the railway communication system in Bangladesh, like worn and torn railway tracks; shortage of new engines, bogies, age old bridges and culvert, irregularity in time table etc., a bullet train covering only a small particular area will come in no use for the entire railway communication system and the mass population of our country. Two prominent transport experts have recently termed the project “highly ambitious” and questioned the capacity of the Bangladesh Railway to operate the high-speed train, when it has not yet introduced electric train.

In the meantime, many passengers at the Kamlapur railway station bound for different routes were seen to sigh and say,” We are regular passengers of Bangladesh Railway. We think the main communication system of the country; railway is now beset with manifold problems. There are many areas of the country where there is no railway network. Besides, many bridges have become hazardous because of age, most of them were built during British regime and we feel really scared when the train passes across those bridges. The trains in most parts of Bangladesh also run on single track, it is also risky, and that is why, head on collisions and other accidents often take place at rampant. Therefore, before starting this type of bullet train project, country’s entire railway infrastructures could have been addressed”.

However, travel time of train between Dhaka and Chittagong will be 73 minutes for train stops at intermediate station and 55 minutes for nonstop train. The ticket cost for one-way journey will be Tk 2,000 without any discount or concession, more than 3 times higher than AC seat on current inter-city trains, these pieces of information could also be known from a source.

 



  
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