Scholastica and traffic jam

By Md. Tauseef AnwarUttara, Dhaka
13 November 2005, 18:00 PM
I write here in reply to all the comments made by some of your readers regarding Scholastica and the traffic jam in front of it. Graduating from Scholastica only one year and a half ago, I thoroughly echo the woes of all the commuters who face the traffic jam every day.

But from what I have read over the past few weeks, I realise the other readers are not analysing the situation properly. I am a resident of Sector-1, Uttara; so I am also in a good position to understand this problem.

To start off, the traffic jam in question here is only limited to a certain time frame. To be specific, there is traffic jam when the school starts and when it ends. Apart from these two time periods, I know that there is absolutely no traffic jam whatsoever in the area. Come anytime between 9:00am and 12: 30pm and you will find this place as quiet as the moon.

The second issue is the parking lot. A parking lot is only built for cars that will be there for a long time. In case of Scholastica, most cars just pick up their wards and leave. So I now ask, what justification can be given for the construction of a parking lot?

Traffic jam is not created by inadequate parking space, but by the sudden flooding of cars at a certain time. If you think a parking lot can reduce traffic jam, then imagine the same body of cars trying to enter the parking premises. Trust me, you would not want a traffic jam inside a parking lot!

I think all schools face this problem of traffic jam at the start and end of the day and that Scholastica has taken the possible measures to reduce chaos and disorder. As far as the Ms. Itrat Rahman's comments are concerned, I believe she was trying to say what I have just said now - that all schools face the same problem of traffic jams. To add to that, in case of any school, parking lot is not an efficient resolution of traffic problems.

One more thing I would like to clarify is that Scholastica does neither have a gymnasium nor a swimming pool. Such false notions are better not expressed. It is also very much evident that readers are not much aware of the issues they are talking about.