Traffic from Daudkandi to Meghna Toll Plaza slows to a crawl, leaving commuters stranded for hours

While crossing Babubazar Bridge, one might wonder whether it is still a bridge or has become a transport stand and roadside market.

If you try to make sense of Dhaka traffic using only logic and Google Maps, you will very quickly realise that the city has no particular interest in cooperating with either of them.

Passengers suffer in heat as vehicles remain stuck for hours

Before I start, let me acknowledge something our beloved Dhaka does with unsettling efficiency: it turns almost anything into a competition.

As part of government directives, Dhaka’s two city corporations are set to take coordinated measures to ease traffic congestion, which include clearing footpaths and roads, introducing semi-automated traffic signals, and bringing rickshaws under a regulated framework.

Other key routes may also see delays over roadworks, bottlenecks

Demonstrations held over a student’s death and demands for Dhaka Central University ordinance

Causes sufferings to commuters

Fouzul Kabir caught in 15km congestion on Ashuganj–Sarail stretch now continuing journey on bike

In the Facebook group Traffic Alert, frustrated commuters asked for updates and alternative routes

Commissioner’s Gulshan commute halts traffic at Tongi College Gate and Bhogra flyovers daily

Around 10,000 Jamaat volunteers were deployed to manage the crowd and coordinate traffic flow, particularly around Shahbagh

The traffic jam, which began around midnight, continued to spread and covered at least 20 kilometres on both sides of the bridge by this morning

Traffic congestion had spread to various parts of the city, Mirpur and Uttara experienced comparatively less disruption

Ninety-six-year-old Nurjahan Begum left her home in Old Dhaka’s Mogholtuli for her daughter’s house in Banasree around 2:00pm yesterday.

Traffic was halted on both lanes of the highway

Over the years, the authorities spent over Tk 119 crore on modernising the equipment, but Dhaka traffic is mostly managed manually.

For the roughly 20 million residents, it seems there are almost as many protest rallies as there are people

Due to long tailbacks and gridlock on major intersections, many students and office-goers are facing significant inconvenience