It's the cars not rickshaws
Mr Rahat of Malibagh (DS 18 April) continues to pour vitriol on rickshaws whose 'crime' is to provide Dhakabashis with cheap, convenient and pollution free transportation that the Gas Guzzling Monstrosities can never do. Astonishingly, he has still not realized what causes traffic jams. In any rickshaw-free road (Picture, DS 19/04/11) it is the 5 lacs cars, parked or speeding that are to blame for the jams. If the rickshaw - van pullers turn violent sometimes, it is to protest against the repression of police, who otherwise fawn over the blatant violation of traffic laws by the GGMs. Further, is this deprivation not a flagrant violation of the constitutional rights of rickshawalas to access public roads for their livelihood?
I wish it were possible to have a week of roads free of cars with only rickshaws plying then Mr Rahat may change his tunes.
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