Traffic jam and Scholastica
This has the reference to letters on this topic published in DS, namely of Mr. Anis Rahman of DU (5.10.05), answered by Ms. Itrat M. Rahman of Scholastica management (12.10.05) sprouting some more subsequent letters (latest being on 2.11.05) from the sufferers. Now that city fathers have taken up the urgent task of carpeting the space between the main road and the footpath in front of Uttara Scholastica School, triggering felling of a good number of trees (greeneries are always the scapegoats), that would facilitate parking of a number of cars coming there (after all, most of the cars belong to bigwigs), let us presume that the problem of parking is being addressed to some extent. Well, none should forget that Scholastica management faced the music, nevertheless readers could yet be informed of the different facets of the problem. On behalf of the humiliated sufferers, may I bring forth another little example of the title above. Scholastica is rendering a good service by its extended outlets and educational institutions. There is a junior section of Scholastica School on Plot-1, Rd-21, Section-4, Uttara, inside a residential area, just adjacent to the main mosque of the locality, and is situated on a narrow road almost at the intersection of Rd-16 and 21. A long trail of cars regularly occupy a stretch of Rd-21 and also Rd-16 from both ends (north and south) starting from 7:45 in the morning, three times a day with the start of the school and two breaks of different groups of students. Each car would drop the student right at the entrance of the school; hence a jam at the intersection of Rd-16 and 21 is unavoidable. There are many attendants to take care of the students, helping them out of car to lead inside the school premise. The school management has been considerate enough to engage some "traffic controllers" of their own at the intersection of Rd-16 and 21 up to the entrance of the school, but in practice they only stop rickshaws and common pedestrians from using the thoroughfare by the side of the school. Thus, the poor non-car riders have to take a detour from either side of the school. "There are good reasons to believe that the so called traffic controllers of the school do not perform their duties", one of the disgusted office-goers on rickshaw said.
The school management should look into the matter.
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