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Pedestrian corridor

29 January 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Petra Osinski, Dhaka, Bangladesh
29 January 2004, 18:00 PM
On Road 103 in Gulshan-2, near where I live, DCC/DUTP-appointed contractors have been working for nearly a year to construct a pedestrian footpath along one side of the road. After many months, without any visible progress in the works, the footpaths were finally completed about four weeks ago, though even then no proper clean-up was done to remove construction debris from the spot. It would, however, appear that the owners/operators of a children's recreational park , a commercial implant in the heart of Gulshan, have other designs for the footpath that borders on their property boundary on Road 103. For the last several days, contractors--presumably engaged by them --have been busy at work to fill in the difference in height between the footpath and Road 103 with tamped down earth and construction debris.

Along the Gulshan Avenue, the park has already been permitted to convert what would otherwise have been a footpath into parking spaces for their visitors. There, pedestrians must now walk at some peril on heavily trafficked Gulshan-Avenue because the footpath has been converted to a

free-of-charge parking lot . It does not take much imagination to foresee that the same is now in store for the more recently completed footpath along Road 103.

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With so many traffic policemen standing by right on the corner of Gulshan Avenue and Road 103, it is amazing to see that an encroachment on a public road and appropriation of a newly constructed public footpath for private-use vehicle parking is readily tolerated."Would the concerned authorities please look into it?"