Long route passengers suffered a lot being stuck in severe tailback on highways that witnessed a surge in the number of vehicles on Friday as general strike for four consecutive days ended on Thursday.
A number of passengers, businessmen and transport employees told New Age that people poured in the roads for having their works done, fearing more general strike in the next week.
The Dhaka-Chittagong highway witnessed a 40-kilometre tailback while another 40-km tailback was seen on the Dhaka-Bangabandhu Bridge highway.
New Age correspondent in Comilla reported that
thousands of passengers were stuck in the vehicles for more than eight hours till Friday morning on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Comilla due to a 40-km tailback.
Hundreds of vehicles were stranded for hours.
New Age correspondent in Tangail reported that huge rush of vehicles caused a 40-km tailback on Dhaka-Bangabandhu Bridge highway.
Huge tailbacks were seen were seen in Bangabandhu Bridge east, Elenga, Rabna bypass, Asokpur bypass, Korotia bypass, Mirzapur, Dherua rail crossing and Gorai areas.
Bangabandhu Bridge east police station officer-in-charge Nazmul Haque Mridha told New Age that a repairing work was going on the bridge also contributed to the tailback caused by a surge in the number of vehicles following the general strike.
Gorai highway police station officer-in-charge Sanowar Hossain said that hundreds of passenger-loaded buses were on the highway at a time along with huge number of trucks causing the long tailback.
Vehicular movement on the highway came to a halt from Gorai to Bangabandhu Bridge persisted from Friday noon.
Nasima Akter, a passenger of a bus who was travelling to Dhaka from Rajshahi along with his family members, said they left Rajshahi at around 7:30am. ‘We were supposed to reach Dhaka by noon, but our bus was stuck at Dherua of Mirzapur till 4:00pm. (Source)
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