Implement students' demands

Not a day goes by without a news report about some fatal road accident somewhere in the country. Road accidents are spreading like a disease. And when something such as this happens so frequently, it makes you wonder whether there is something fundamentally wrong with our transport sector. So when two college students were killed by a speeding bus recently, the students were forced to respond in the best way they could. They took to the streets demanding road safety, and paralysed the city and replaced the traffic police. They checked driving licenses. In some areas, they also created an emergency lane for ambulances and vehicles of other emergency services—something unseen in our country.

Now the government claims to have accepted their demands, but implementing them will not be easy. We urge the government to be sincere in its efforts to enforce strict measures to combat the menace of reckless driving.

Abdus Salam, Barisal