Editorial
Traffic snarl-up in the capital
Remove bottlenecks fast
IT seems the capital dwellers will have to brace for another spate of traffic jams and inordinate hold ups on the roads of the capital during the month of Ramadan. This unfortunately is the situation which is getting horrendously repetitive every year without any signs of improving any time soon.
The current traffic situation has been caused due mainly to the service agencies taking undue time for road repairs, unregulated roadside markets, piling of construction materials on the roads, and, off late, the under construction flyovers. It is extraordinary too that these works are carried out during the worst part of the year, the wet season. Add to that the predilection of the drivers to flout traffic rules and the haphazard parking of public transports on the road, not to say anything about students and workers who find laying siege to roads and blocking traffic a convenient way to ventilate their grievances.
It seems rather odd too that only the day before yesterday, the Dhaka-Chittagong highway was blocked by students demanding solution to traffic jam, without their realising that their action has had fallout on the traffic situation in Dhaka city.
We are afraid the situation will compound life in Dhaka city even more given that the Ramadan-Eid shopping spree is about to get underway, unless some corrective measures are taken immediately. Something urgent must be done to control movement of rickshaws as well as to restrict flow of vehicles on only one direction in some specific areas of Dhaka.
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