50 double-deckers to provide shuttle service to Metro Rail passengers

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has readied 50 double-decker buses to provide shuttle services to metro rail passengers as the country's first metro rail service is going to be launched on Wednesday.

BRTC buses will have two routes at first stage -- one is Agargaon-Farmgate-Shahbagh-Motijheel-- while another route would be Diabari to Housebuilding in capital Uttara.

"We will start trial run of buses within a day or two; and will start providing shuttle services on the day metro rail authorities will start carrying passengers," BRTC Spokesperson Amjad Hossain told the media.

BRTC will provide the services following an agreement signed with Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL), the implementing and operating agency of the metro rail, last month, he added.

DMTCL has arranged the shuttle bus services as they are going to launch partial operation of country's first ever metro rail formally known as Mass Rapid Transit Line-6 or MRT Line-6 from Uttara to Agargaon.