Sayedabad to serve only city buses as inter-district services move to Kanchpur
He also said the authorities are planning to relocate the Gulistan bus terminal to the other side of the river.
The Sayedabad Bus Terminal will be used exclusively for city bus services, while inter-district buses will be relocated to Kanchpur in phases as part of a wider effort to improve Dhaka's transport system, Dhaka South City Corporation Administrator Md Abdus Salam has said.
He also announced plans to relocate the Gulistan bus terminal across the river as part of a broader initiative to streamline the capital's transport network.
Speaking to reporters today (9 July) after inspecting the Sayedabad Bus Terminal and overseeing an eviction drive, Salam said the terminal had long failed to serve its intended purpose.
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"Instead of functioning as a passenger terminal, Sayedabad has effectively become a garage and dumping station for buses," he said, adding that the facility should be used only for boarding and disembarking passengers.
Dhaka South has already begun cleaning the terminal and will tighten regulations on bus parking. For now, each transport operator will be allowed to keep no more than one or two buses inside the terminal, while additional buses will have to wait elsewhere.
To improve traffic flow, the terminal will have three designated entry and exit points.
Transport owners and workers have been given until 15 July to comply with the new rules. After that, buses will no longer be allowed to stop or pick up and drop off passengers outside designated areas.
Salam said maintaining discipline in the transport sector was essential to making Dhaka a cleaner and more liveable city, adding that transport owners and workers had assured the city corporation of their cooperation.
He also said illegal shops inside the terminal would be removed. The authorities will later verify documents before allocating designated spaces to eligible vendors and hawkers.
