Elevated expressway to increase traffic jam, roundtable told
The proposed elevated expressway will increase traffic congestion and public sufferings rather than become beneficial to common people in the city, speakers told a roundtable yesterday.
They said the 21-kilometre-long elevated expressway, which costs Tk 18,000 crore, will mainly be used by private cars.
Save Environment Movement (SEM) and Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) organised the roundtable on ''Great crisis in traffic system: alternative ways of solution''.
The speakers said improved mass transports including trains, buses, cycles, rickshaws, etc and enough civic facilities in other cities could eliminate traffic jam.
According to them, a certain quarter is giving false information to the government for their business interests to undertake such a big anti-people project.
Abu Naser Khan, chairman of Save Environment Movement, chaired the roundtable.
BIP President Prof Sarwar Jahan, its Vice-president Md Shawkat Ali Khan, Communist Party of Bangladesh President Manjurul Ahsan Khan, Engineer Sheikh Md Shahidullah, Mafidul Haque Khan of Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan among others addressed at the discussion.
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