Schools should have own buses
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One contributing factor to our worsening traffic situation is that most of our schools don't have their own transport services. With a very poor public transport system, most parents including myself are compelled to use private vehicles as the only option for sending the kids to school. For example, in the same school in Dhaka, where my two sons and three nieces study, I need to send the car at least four times each day, to pick and drop them, owing to different class timings! Hence it's actually no surprise that our traffic situation will be in this state. Rather than introducing new public buses for school children in some routes (which was a failure by the way, as most parents could not rely on it) and asking people to follow strongly the traffic rules to control this traffic issue, the government could impose on all big schools to have mandatory bus services. This way, if each such big school invests on say 15-20 buses (even at profit base operation), that would easily replace 1000 private cars! I am sure if schools arrange their own bus services with proper driver check etc, many like me would be definitely inclined to use it for our kids.
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