Relocate bus terminals

We are to remember here that autocrat Ershad could materialise more decentralisation than our democratically elected governments!

However, the positions of both Mohakhali and Saidabad are again in the interior of the city and these are causing large-scale traffic jams in the areas concerned. Only Gabtali is very much at an end of the city. The Mohakhali terminal should be relocated on the northern fringe. The location may be at or near Abdullapur--the northern end of Dhaka. There may not be enough space on the western side, but there is such space in between the road and the rail-line just inside the dam built to save Dhaka from flooding by the Turag. This location is very good in the sense that both Tangail-Mymensingh and Khulna-Barisal going buses can use this for convenience.

The Saidabad terminal may be relocated near Kanchpur Bridge. But there is not enough space and the bridge is a very old one. Besides, the new road connecting the east to the north-west is joined to this road at Madonpur beyond the bridge. Thus the location may better be on the eastern side of Kanchpur Bridge in between the bridge and Madonpur. The same terminal may have access to the buses towards Dhaka and to the north-west from and to the eastern region of the country.

I think relocating of these terminals may be associated with the construction of Dhaka eastern by-pass and may be materialised as soon as possible.