To facilitate school bus service to the congestion in Dhaka

A long-cherished expectation is the introduction of school buses right of Bangladesh road transport Corporation (BRTC) both parents and their school going children

BRTC launched yesterday a bus service for students from Pallabi go to Azimpur off congestion in the capital to facilitate.

The school bus opened the first phase Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain services in Mirpur Bangla high school.

Although the bus service yesterday officially opened with 14 buses in the fleet, will take students of service today to complete.

The buses are works by Mirpur-12 Azimpur with almost 33 shutdowns where students and guardians can bus on board.

Students of the schools in Mirpur Azimpur get the service route and their parents from 6 a.m. to 9: 00 and 11: 00 am to 3 pm. Buses are available after every 10 minutes.

The maximum bus ticket from Mirpur, Azimpur was set at minimum of 5 (Azimpur science lab) TK TK 1.50 per km distance and TK-18. Students can buy for six months in advance at TK 1,400 ticket.

Many schools have created already in advance claim tickets services.

Authorities hope that this would facilitate off congestion in the capital, especially around the city schools and the adjacent streets, like movement of private cars carry children significantly be reduced.

"It's only getting started." Let's see how it minimizes traffic congestion. If it goes well, we'll make 100 plus buses fleet "BRTC said Chairman major (i.r) MM Iqbal UNB via telephone."

Dhaka metropolitan police was asked the school buses to reach to give priority to cross the traffic signals quickly at their schools.

November 11, 2009 agreed to introduce the Ministry of education and school and college authorities in the capital in principle, to facilitate the bus service for students of certain schools in a bid off jam.

Principals and head teachers of schools and colleges agreed that private cars, the introduction of students to jam around certain good schools and colleges in the capital contribute.

The meeting proposed that arrangement with the BRTC bus service for certain schools to introduce could make the school authorities.

BRTC would lead 100 buses on the most important streets for schoolchildren and procurement of 100 CNG buses run has been completed.

Formerly BRTC most prestigious educational institutions has their cooperation in the introduction of services notice search shipped:

There are about 400 Government and non-State schools in the capital. According to the Bangladesh road transport authority are more than half of the four lakh city registered vehicles plying road private car.

A survey of Dhaka urban transport projects is private cars only 9 percent total take of commuters but more than to occupy 35 per cent of road space.

[based on UNB]

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