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Country’s first expressway opens Thursday

and now you are just changing your statement, all these brands you just mentioned have some flavors that goes in $1000s :)
And yet I’m buying them in supermarkets... hmm interesting
1000$ that you mentioned probably has import duty on em... I’m getting a 750ml grey goose for 35$ Others are similarly priced
 
And yet I’m buying them in supermarkets... hmm interesting
1000$ that you mentioned probably has import duty on em... I’m getting a 750ml grey goose for 35$ Others are similarly priced

you replied to my statement of "most expensive Vodka", you said there is no such thing as all vodka is $shit cheap
 
you replied to my statement of "most expensive Vodka", you said there is no such thing as all vodka is $shit cheap
I said it’s cheapest among all kinds of spirits... you think vodka is the most expensive liquor? Think again... there are other liquor more expensive than vodkas... you want to show me some million dollar vodka? I can show you wines and champagne double that... and that’s counter intuitive if you’re talking about having a drink because those bespoke products aren’t mass produced

Speaking of vodka, there’s nothing such as the most expensive vodka... it’s the cheapest among spirits and I’m a budding spirit Connoisseur and so I know.

Let’s stick to mass marketed than bespoke brands, could throw a couple of gin, whiskey and wine your way if we’re really going all out.

I never mentioned mass market, all mass market brand are piss taste and dirt cheap

Not all... absolut, finlandia, grey goose are some fine vodkas, smoothest...
If you’re going for trash like nemiroff, then it’s not the vodka that should be blame but you

and now you are just changing your statement, all these brands you just mentioned have some flavors that goes in $1000s :)

and you know what’s funny? You’re looking up some website that doesn’t mention where they sell the brands I mentioned for 1000$ and taking it for face value, shows you’ve no idea what you’re talking about. So stop pretending like you are an expert on vodka or their pricing
 
Yeah I saw that. No police around of course to stop these folks. :-)

These days you gotta watch out for these poor ignorant suckers, 80 MPH vs. 5 MPH is no match, they'll get smashed and killed instantly...
On Pakistani motorways only car, buses and trucks are allowed. No gaada, rickshaw and motorcycle allowed. Plus our motorway and highway police may be the most honest and efficient police force, if not in the world, in the region for sure.
No one dare to over speed more than 129 KM/h . No one dare to drive without a seat belt. No one dare to be in the lane supposed to be for someone else.
 
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Speaking of vodka, there’s nothing such as the most expensive vodka... it’s the cheapest among spirits and I’m a budding spirit Connoisseur and so I know.


@fitpOsitive also could be this.


Damn the highway next to my area in Kuwait is like this. That’s cool

they should make inner lane high speed lane and outer lane speed limited lane


I mean let’s be honest, 5 yo aren’t building these... contracts are given and engineers design them to suit the geography... we don’t have to defend our architects and engineers against yours... we have plenty world renowned ourselves

Sears tower (most innovative/revolutionary skyscraper of the time) was designed by a Bangladesh-born gentleman...:-), these guys should do some reading...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Rahman_Khan

He came up with the 'bundled-tube' structural concept, making it possible to build a rigid structure that tall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_(structure)#/media/File:Willis_Tower_tube_structure.svg

And we have to explain these basic things to people who have no idea. :rolleyes:
 
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Above are two pictures of a highway service area where motorists park their cars, take rest, go to toilets and buy souvenirs. However, the opening news does not say anything about service areas.

At least, one or two service areas in each direction are needed for this Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga expressway. It is about 60 km and will take about 2.5 hours to travel. All developed countries have service areas for motorists and bus passengers.

What you see in the title? It is not officially opened yet! Tomorrow it will be opened by PM Hasina. Some people are going there to see it.

55 km road cannot be reached in 27 minutes. One has to go more than 122km per hour which should not be encouraged. The Highway department should limit the speed at 80 kph for the faster right-hand lane and it must mobilize Highway Patrol/Police to catch speed offenders.

Cameras/speedometers should be placed with a proper recording system to deny bribes by Police for which BD police are world-famous.
 
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On Pakistani motorways only car, buses and trucks are allowed. No gaada, rickshaw and motorcycle allowed. Plus our motorway and highway police may be the most honest and efficient police force, if not in the world, in the region for sure.
No one dare to over speed more than 129 KM/h . No one dare to drive without a seat belt. No one dare to be in the lane supposed to be for someone else.
But I saw many Ghadas driving cars :lol:
 
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Above are two pictures of a highway service area where motorists park their cars, take rest, go to toilets and buy souvenirs. However, the opening news does not say anything about service areas.

At least, one or two service areas in each direction are needed for this Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga expressway. It is about 60 km and will take about 2.5 hours to travel. All developed countries have service areas for motorists and bus passengers.


55 km road cannot be reached in 27 minutes. One has to go more than 122km per hour which should not be encouraged. The Highway department should limit the speed at 80 kph for the faster right-hand lane and it must mobilize Highway Patrol/Police to catch speed offenders.

Cameras/speedometers should be placed with a proper recording system to deny bribes by Police for which BD police are world-famous.

The highest speed limit of the expressway is 150 KM/H as no obstacle is expected on the highway. Speed limit of the highway is 80 KM/H instead.

As you are talking about road safety BUET had found some security flaws in the road. But it appears Awami League is opening it without addressing the issues to along with the Mujib Borsho.

Safety flaws detected on Mawa highway
Inauguration by PM likely in March
Shahin Akhter | Published: 01:42, Feb 18,2020

https://www.newagebd.net/article/99909/safety-flaws-detected-on-mawa-highway


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A measurement tape shows that the gap between the barrier and the concrete divider is over 10 inches on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway at Shologhar in Sreenagar, Munshiganj. The photo was taken on Monday. — Sourav Losker

The government is scheduled to open the Dhaka–Mawa–Bhanga four-lane highway next month with ‘ineffective road safety measures’ as experts have detected engineering faults on the road.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology experts found ‘faulty’ and ‘accident-prone’ features in the already-built divider system of the under-construction highway.

While investigating a recent fatal accident on the 55-kilometre-long highway they found significant gap between the crash or safety barrier and the divider’s concrete block which would increase the fatality rates in accidents, they said.

Roads and Highways Department project officials admitted the faults and said that they would conduct an audit on the highway before its inauguration but could not give any specific timeline for correcting the divider system.

Meanwhile, during a visit by New Age to the highway on Sunday non-motorised and slow-moving vehicles were seen to ply the highway not using the designated service lanes for them.

Buses and trucks were also seen overtaking other vehicles at different points on the road.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to inaugurate the highway in March on the occasion of the birth centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of Bangladesh, said RHD officials.

The RHD and the Bangladesh Army have been jointly implementing the four-lane highway project since June 2016.

The highway is being built under a two-phase project to improve the road from Jatrabari Intersection (including Ekuria–Babubazar link road) to Pachchar–Bhanga in Faridpur through Mawa Road of Dhaka–Khulna (N-8) Highway into a four-lane highway with separate lanes for slow-moving vehicles.

The project was approved by the executive committee of the National Economic Council in May 2016 and was scheduled to be completed by June this year.

The revised cost of the project reached around Tk 10,900 crore at present from the original Tk 6,252 crore because of additional components.

The engineering faults in the highway came to light as a result of the recent accident in question.

In the accident, nine people were killed when a Swadhin Express Paribahan bus hit a microbus coming with a wedding party from the opposite direction on the highway at Khoiyagaon of Sholghar under Sreenagar upazila in Munshiganj on November 22, 2019.

The dead were passengers and the driver of the microbus.

A letter signed by the Gazipur region superintendent of the highway police was sent to the BUET Accident Research Institute on November 27 with the request for a detailed report on the investigation into the accident.

After carrying out the investigation with a four-member team, the institute submitted the report to the highway police blaming the bursting of a bus wheel and the use of a modified wheel on the bus as the primary and secondary causes of the accident.

It blamed the bus driver’s lack of skill and some engineering faults as tertiary causes.

The ARI investigation report observed that following the collision between the two vehicles the safety barrier along the divider bent but the barrier was set up about 10 inches inside the divider at the accident spot and there were no traffic signs, road marking and speed limits on the highway up to Hashara in Munshiganj.

The report said that the edge of the barrier and the road median should be parallel and only then the barrier could absorb the highest amount of force during accidents and on this highway the microbus could touch the barrier partially and hence failed to pass the full impact force on to it.

On Sunday, New Age found that the gap between the barrier and the concrete divider was around 20 inches along the Hashara filing station, around 15 inches along the Ekuria stretch in Dakkhin Keraniganj and around six inches on Dhaleswari Bridge and at the Khandakar intersection of West Jurain in Shyampur.

Besides, very few traffic signs and speed-limit marks were found to have been set up on the highway.

‘The engineer or the monitoring agency or the implementing organisation concerned is responsible for not setting up the barrier properly on the road,’ the report remarked.

The Accident Research Institute recommended that the barrier and the median should be parallel and an inspection or road safety audit should be carried out as the highway would be a high-speed and busy road.

ARI assistant professor Kazi Md Shifun Newaz on Saturday said that the fatality rate in the November accident was high because after the bus hit the microbus the latter’s wheels got stuck into the 10-inch gap between the barrier and the divider causing almost all of the microbus passengers to have died.

He further said that had the barrier and the divider been parallel then the microbus could have gone backward or braked inside the barrier and fewer people could have been killed.

‘People will drive fast on this highway and that is why these ineffective road safety features should be immediately corrected before inaugurating the project,’ Shifun added.

RHD additional chief engineer (Dhaka Zone) and the project director from the department, Md Sabuj Uddin Khan, on Sunday said that road safety audits were usually conducted on existing roads in order to identify safety hazards.

They would also conduct a road safety audit and implement the remedies before the inauguration, he added.

He, however, cited the Indian Roads Congress guideline which allows a maximum of four inches gap between the barrier and the divider.

Asked about the wider gaps on the road than that stipulated by the Indian standard, he said, ‘Of course we will discuss the higher gaps between the barrier and the divider with the authorities concerned.’

But he could not give any specific time when this work would be done.

Replying to a question, he said that he would not call this highway a complete expressway right now as such an expressway should be fully access-controlled with outgoing and incoming points, toll plaza, service areas and wider service roads.

He also said that the link road between Babubazar and Ekuria would be completed by 2020 while the works on the approach roads of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge at Mawa and Pachchar within five to six months.
 
I said it’s cheapest among all kinds of spirits... you think vodka is the most expensive liquor? Think again... there are other liquor more expensive than vodkas... you want to show me some million dollar vodka? I can show you wines and champagne double that... and that’s counter intuitive if you’re talking about having a drink because those bespoke products aren’t mass produced



Diva Vodka – $1 Million


Another Vodka that is triple filtered, first through ice, which gives it a special flavor, and second, through Birch charcoal, and lastly, through special, semi-precious gems that are designed to remove any impurities that might happen to still exist in the liquid. It is said to have the highest quality of smoothness of all Vodka’s, rich and pure so of course, a Vodka this good only deserves the best bottle, which happens to be more jewels involved. Each bottle is donned with semi-precious jewels that run right down the middle of each bottle. In the end, what you are paying for is not only the Vodka itself, but the bottle, too, so if you can’t see yourself paying $1 million dollars for the bottle and the Vodka, you can choose to purchase Diva in a non-jeweled bottle for just $4,000, but if you have the money to spend, why not go all the way and get the best of the best.

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Ruso-Baltique Vodka (new) – $1.35 Million

This is Ruso-Baltique’s (the Russian automaker) newer bottle of Vodka that is still crowned with the Russian Imperial Eagle, but with a different look, although still replicating the radiator guard of his first engineered automobiles. He revealed his Vodka at the Top Marques, at the Grimaldi Forum. At its debut, Ruso-Baltique presented Prince Albert of Monaco with the very first bottle, and since then, his Vodka has made television, being featured on the hit television show, House of Cards, during the show’s third season. The bottle is made of 100% shatter-proof glass so that no matter where you drop it from, you will never lose any of the drink, which will cost you $1.35 million. At that price, you definitely would not want to lose a drop.

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Billionaire Vodka – $3.7 Million

Just saying the name, Billionaire Vodka, let’s you know that this is a very expensive Vodka, and as a matter-of-fact, it is the most expensive Vodka on the list. It’s a smooth Vodka that is unsurpassed by any other in the world and is often regarded as the most amazing Vodka in the world. So much so, that it is often the Vodka of choice primarily by the wealthiest and most successful elites of society. What makes this Vodka so amazing is the triple distilled process it goes through, a long with the fact that it is made using natural spring water. The process starts with first being ice-filtered through Nordic Birch charcoal before it is then passed through sand, but not your typical sand, it is sand made of crushed gems and diamonds. Before it goes to sell, it is bottled in one of the most expensive and extravagant bottles ever, a Platinum and Rhodium encased diamond encrusted crystal bottle. Each bottle is given a solid gold label and neckband that is encrusted with channel set diamonds and numbered diamond speckled, platinum flocked foil seal that is hand mounted on each bottle. Each sells for $3.7 million, which makes it the most expensive Vodka in the world.
 
Guys I understand all the excitement about Vodka in people hailing from Islamic countries - however is this the place and time to discuss this? This is tantamount to hijacking the thread. :-(
 
Diva Vodka – $1 Million


Another Vodka that is triple filtered, first through ice, which gives it a special flavor, and second, through Birch charcoal, and lastly, through special, semi-precious gems that are designed to remove any impurities that might happen to still exist in the liquid. It is said to have the highest quality of smoothness of all Vodka’s, rich and pure so of course, a Vodka this good only deserves the best bottle, which happens to be more jewels involved. Each bottle is donned with semi-precious jewels that run right down the middle of each bottle. In the end, what you are paying for is not only the Vodka itself, but the bottle, too, so if you can’t see yourself paying $1 million dollars for the bottle and the Vodka, you can choose to purchase Diva in a non-jeweled bottle for just $4,000, but if you have the money to spend, why not go all the way and get the best of the best.

Ruso-Baltique-Vodka--600x600.jpg


Ruso-Baltique Vodka (new) – $1.35 Million

This is Ruso-Baltique’s (the Russian automaker) newer bottle of Vodka that is still crowned with the Russian Imperial Eagle, but with a different look, although still replicating the radiator guard of his first engineered automobiles. He revealed his Vodka at the Top Marques, at the Grimaldi Forum. At its debut, Ruso-Baltique presented Prince Albert of Monaco with the very first bottle, and since then, his Vodka has made television, being featured on the hit television show, House of Cards, during the show’s third season. The bottle is made of 100% shatter-proof glass so that no matter where you drop it from, you will never lose any of the drink, which will cost you $1.35 million. At that price, you definitely would not want to lose a drop.

Billionaire-Vodka--750x504.jpg


Billionaire Vodka – $3.7 Million

Just saying the name, Billionaire Vodka, let’s you know that this is a very expensive Vodka, and as a matter-of-fact, it is the most expensive Vodka on the list. It’s a smooth Vodka that is unsurpassed by any other in the world and is often regarded as the most amazing Vodka in the world. So much so, that it is often the Vodka of choice primarily by the wealthiest and most successful elites of society. What makes this Vodka so amazing is the triple distilled process it goes through, a long with the fact that it is made using natural spring water. The process starts with first being ice-filtered through Nordic Birch charcoal before it is then passed through sand, but not your typical sand, it is sand made of crushed gems and diamonds. Before it goes to sell, it is bottled in one of the most expensive and extravagant bottles ever, a Platinum and Rhodium encased diamond encrusted crystal bottle. Each bottle is given a solid gold label and neckband that is encrusted with channel set diamonds and numbered diamond speckled, platinum flocked foil seal that is hand mounted on each bottle. Each sells for $3.7 million, which makes it the most expensive Vodka in the world.
You talk as if you drank this vodka... this is bespoke product so no use of talking about it. Pfft... stupid
 
The highest speed limit of the expressway is 150 KM/H as no obstacle is expected on the highway. Speed limit of the highway is 80 KM/H instead.
Germany has no speed limit on its expressways (autobahn) and thousands of people die because of fatal accidents. 150 kph is almost unlimited speed. Considering the stupid and macho mindset of our people it should be limited to 80 kph. After a few years, it can be raised to 100 kph if accidents are infrequent at 80 kph.

I could not understand the implication of the measuring tape in the photograph and its explanation given by BUET. However, I have noticed that so far there is no white line about 40 cm away from the divider and/or the edge of the road. Even there is no white line in between two adjacent lanes but Quader has opened the road. Very unruly decision. I hope, they will carry out all these small things.

I also propose insurance for users. Motorists in Bd may not like making regular payments on insurance. So, I propose that small insurance money be included in the toll road. I am happy to note there are drains to dispose of the rainwater.
 
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