Bangladesh Road safety
Endless loss of lives on the roads
Govt must make greater efforts to ensure road safety
8 April 2025, 05:00 AM
Eid journeys should be safe and easy
Take steps to increase highway safety, reduce gridlock
24 March 2025, 05:00 AM
Will our roads remain death traps?
Mawa expressway crash exposes state failure to ensure road safety
29 December 2024, 14:00 PM
Time to form a commission to ensure road safety
It is time to form a commission to drive reforms in transport sector
12 November 2024, 05:00 AM
Ensuring pedestrian safety through co-design and behaviour change models
While road authorities and professionals often attribute pedestrian injuries and fatalities to the reckless actions of pedestrians and drivers, the users themselves frequently point to inadequate and unsafe facilities.
4 November 2024, 06:00 AM
We need decent working hours to give better service
Working for long hours without rest and sleep can, of course, increase the risk of accidents.
22 October 2024, 03:00 AM
City corporations shouldn’t be endangering lives
DSCC garbage truck incident shows how negligence is costing lives
28 April 2024, 07:57 AM
More buses cannot guarantee safer, better service
Holistic approach needed to improve public transport system
6 February 2024, 10:15 AM
Structural killings, not road ‘accidents’
Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.
17 January 2024, 02:00 AM
Some relief for road crash victims
Compensation package for affected families long overdue
22 August 2023, 07:11 AM
A suspicious BRTA diktat
BRTA must work collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure road safety
14 April 2023, 11:34 AM
A sheer waste of public money
Why were the trauma centres built if they were to be left unused?
31 March 2023, 20:30 PM
‘Improving road safety can accelerate economic growth’
The World Bank and the United Nations will continue working together with the Government of Bangladesh to improve road safety, Vice President for South Asia of the global financier, Hartwig Schafer says.
28 January 2020, 16:46 PM
Checking Road Accidents: Long wait for effective steps
Formed in February with former shipping minister Shajahan Khan at its helm, a committee two months later made a 111-point recommendation on how to reduce road crashes and bring discipline in the transport sector.
24 November 2019, 18:00 PM
1 Year of Road Safety Demo: 22 students still tangled up in cases
Students who took to the streets last year for safer roads could not achieve what they had set out to do, but now many of them have to appear before courts almost every month as the police accused them of vandalism.
29 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Demand for reviewing road accident compensation
A joint meeting of transport owners and workers was held in the city’s Mohanagar Natya Mancha on May 2 where transport leaders stated that they would have to rethink their decision to remain in the business in light of recent orders by the High Court to transport companies to pay financial damages...
3 May 2019, 18:00 PM
UN Road Safety Week: Bangladesh to observe it for first time
Bangladesh will observe the United Nations Global Road Safety Week this year for the first time aiming to raise awareness about road safety to prevent road accidents.
24 April 2019, 18:00 PM
No retreat
Student demonstrators yesterday said they would resume their peaceful protest for safe roads on Sunday to keep pressure on the authorities to implement their promises.
21 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The same old promise again
In the face of student protests for road safety, transport owners and workers yesterday came up with the same old promises of not operating buses on daily contracts, and scrutinising licences before appointing drivers.
20 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Controversial leaders given road safety job
Hours after two college students were killed by a speeding bus in the capital in July last year, Shajahan Khan smirked when reporters sought his reaction as a transport leader.
17 February 2019, 18:00 PM