Managing city traffic
Are not the poor and common people deprived of using the two giant flyovers at Mohakhali and Shajahanpur?
Only the rich possessing motor vehicles are enjoying the benefit of the two flyovers constructed with a huge amount of public money.
The two flyovers have failed to solve the terrible road traffic jams in the city.
We now have come to know that our Ministry of Communications, Roads and Highways Department and Dhaka City Corporation are contemplating building two additional mammoth flyovers in the city.
We believe that even mammoth flyovers from one end to another end, from east to west and from north to south of our capital, would never help solve the traffic jams in the city.
The area of our capital city is very small and it is over populated. People are living in over 2,000 tiny, thickly populated and crowded localities having innumerable narrow and congested, zigzag and serpent like public roads, lanes and by-lanes which are somehow and somewhere linked and connected with our few main roads. Moreover, there are thousands of road squares, road turning points, road crossings and road signals in the city wherein all types of motor vehicles and manually driven vehicles are required to stop again and again which create obstruction in road journey and terrible road traffic jams all over the city.
Instead of giant flyovers can't we build a few three/two storied flyovers at Farm Gate, Bangla Motors, Gulistan, Gulshan, Shapla Chattor, Motijheel squares, Nawabpur-English Road square and also at important road turning points enabling the motor vehicles to move all the time without any hindrance?
This we strongly feel and believe is economically feasible.
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