Dhaka, April 24 -- A fresh initiative has been taken to restore operation of signalling system in the city's over 100 crossings which remained almost stopped for a long time even after taking different projects spending more than Tk1.5 billion during the last two decades.

Officials said under the move, one corridor from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to High Court has been selected where local technology will be installed for operating the signals automatically and manually counting traffic.

"We have so far tried to install expensive and sophisticated signalling system with ITS several times but none worked in the city due to various reasons," said an official adding that local system will be tried this time in a very nominal fu...