Hazardous traffic

The roads, streets and lanes of Dhaka are narrow, criss-cross with thousands of road junctions, road squares and road crossings. As a result, movement of vehicles and pedestrians is always obstructed and they are stranded here and there very frequently for a long time and their sufferings know no bounds.

Our authorities concerned have taken a number of steps to mitigate the sufferings of the people by constructing many foot overbridges, several big underpasses and a few giant flyovers. One way traffic has been introduced on many roads and now a mammoth flyover is being constructed from Jatrabari to Gulistan.

We have found that construction of foot overbridges has been proved useless, the construction of giant underpasses has also been a failure for various cogent reasons. Further, we observe that construction of mammoth flyovers also does not help solve the acute and erratic traffic problems in the city.

We strongly feel that instead of giant underpasses we may build several underpasses of small size in every busy and crowded road. Side by side with mammoth flyovers we may also construct single storied, double storied overbridges (small flyovers) for 24-hour movement of vehicles in important and busy places like Farm Gate, Asad Gate, Bangla Motors, Malibagh, Hotel Sheraton, Topkhana, High Court, Purana Paltan, Govt. Now Market Azimpur, Shapla Chattor, GPO. Nawabpur-English Road, Mirpur, Shabagh etc.

Unless and until we consider and implement the above pragmatic and practical steps the acute and hazardous road traffic problems of Dhaka city would never be solved.