Online Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the much-awaited elevated expressway’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport-Farmgate section. The Primer opened the expressway at a programme held at the old trade fair ground at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital at 3.30pm.

Later, she paid toll as first passenger at Kawla point. The airport-Farmgate section will be opened to traffic the next day (Sunday) of the inauguration.

Three wheelers, bicycles and pedestrians will not be allowed to move on the expressway, while motorbikes cannot run on it right now. Earlier, the road transport and bridges ministry fixed the toll rates for the Dhaka Elevated Expressway’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport-Farmgate section ranging from Taka 80 to Taka 400.