Introduce more buses
The busy, clogged up Dhaka city and it dwellers need to have some sort of comfort while commuting throughout the day to their destinations. Cars and rickshaws, according to many people, are the main reason of the city's traffic congestions.
Making roads and flyovers, underpasses etc are time consuming and costly. The traffic department with the help of the city corporation and bus owners' association can actually increase the number of buses per route and all the parties will have to ensure that the buses which will be plying must be always on the left-hand side of the road. Bus certainly carries more passengers than rickshaws and cars and is the cheapest amongst he transports available for the city dwellers. If the left side of the main roads can be designated for the buses, the transportation time will certainly come down and a person can probably save 15-20 minutes during each journey. However, the condition of the bus has to be better internally and externally. All the buses must be painted in the same colour. The so called minibus has to vanish from the streets as these are the daredevils which create most of the congestions, haphazard parkings along with speeding on the streets which ends up in some sort of violence and chaos. The city corporation must ensure that the edge of the roads and footpaths are well maintained, so that to avoid the broken edge of the road, the bus does not have to deviate which will create problems in the middle of the road or the junctions and the passengers will not have to wait in the middle of the road for boarding a bus.
If a joint team from BRTA, Metropolitan Police (Traffic) and the City Corporation with the blessings of the government takes up this small but effective project, we will see that the city traffic is moving fast and the time which the passengers waste will also be reduced significantly. Dhaka is still a small city compared to other big cities in Asia.
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