Plight of ordinary travellers on VIP roads
Road number 18 in North Banani has been made off limit for rickshaws for the last few months because of traffic jam. But does it mean that people who own cars are the owners of that road and who do not have cars should remain away? Is it democracy? Is it the decision of the traffic police? If it is, then Road number 11 of South Banani is also overcrowded most of the days of the week but there is no solution. May be it is the decision of an adviser in the prime minister's office whose house lies on road number 18.
Old people, schoolgoing children, patients and other unfortunate commuters have to go from North Gulshan to Banani or from Banani to North Gulshan by using the overcrowded Kemal Ataturk Avenue to reach their destinations by CNG-run auto rickshaw, or they have to go via road number 11 of South Banani to Gulshan 2 and then cross the main road twice and take another rickshaw to reach their destination and undergo a lot of sufferings because they do not belong to the posh society.
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