Rickshaw menace
Photo: Amdadul Huq / Driknews
If anybody says rickshaw is the most powerful and fastest vehicle in Dhaka, nobody will disagree. It is so powerful that it can stop any motorized vehicle inside the road by its changing of direction as per its will. It pays little attention while changing courses disregarding other vehicles. As it does not need any fuel it runs by manual power which seems to be very judiciously applied by its puller. Once the rickshaw attains a high speed its puller is reluctant to lower down the speed by its hand brake, lest the rickshaw would require further manual pressure by the puller totally disregarding other motorized vehicles speeding fast. This type of mad race by rickshaws with motorized vehicles sometimes poses a great threat to pullers themselves. Their wanton violation of traffic rules puts extra pressure on law enforcers maintaining traffic, especially at the road intersections, pedestrians, and also on the users of other vehicles. Their free style driving of rickshaws demonstrates their intention of realizing good penalty from the users of motorized vehicles for any damage or injury due to collision with motorized vehicles. So the users of motorized vehicles are always scared of the rickshaws. The government may ban rickshaw on the following busy roads: - Uttara Jashimuddin Avenue. -Uttara Rabindra Sarani from Azampur. - Uttara Sonargaon Janapath from Mascot Plaza. - From Abdullahpur towards Tongi highway. - Biswa Road -- Kuril, Rampura. -Maghbazar/Mouchak intersection. Rickshaws should ply only the lanes and by lanes of the city. If this type of competition is allowed on the streets between rickshaws and motorized vehicles, then rickshaws will dominate the streets cornering the motorized vehicles.
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