One of world's most crowded cities Dhaka gets first mass-transit rail

In Dhaka, with 10.3 million people packed in 305 square km, the average driving speeds have dropped to less than 7 km an hour right now from 21 km

Bangladesh’s capital is about to get its first metro rail, a Japanese-funded project that aims to ease commuting in one of the most congested cities in the world. 
 

A section of the 20-kilometer (12.427 miles) urban rail project, known as Line 6, will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday. The line connects the northern zone of Dhaka to a hub of government offices and hospitals in the middle for now. Eventually it will cut through the city to the financial district of Motijheel in the south. 

While the project is likely to bring significant changes to how people