CONDITIONS OF BUSES IN DHAKA CITY

Dhaka city has become so much crowded that it has become impossible to live in this city. Mobin, a businessman from Demra says that it takes more than two hour to reach Banani these days due to traffic jams in the streets. The traffic jams have severely increased so much in recent times that keeping appointment on time is impossible.

Parveen works in a private bank and she lives in Uttara. Her office is in Gulshan. Everyday she takes a bus to go to her office. Unfortunately, only a few times she can reach her office on time. Now-a-days it takes almost one hour to reach her destination place. Sometimes more than this.

Dhaka city has become totally messed up. We do not think that any of our Mayor had long term visions of constructing roads in efficient ways. Without any solid thinkings the roads were built and which is why the citizens of Dhaka city are suffering now. The situation has already become chaotic. If any proper action is not taken now then it will be far more difficult for anyone to deal with the situation of traffic jams.

Almost three months ago, an initiative had been taken to reduce two--thirds of the number of routes of the buses. Till now, it has not been implemented yet. In fact the number of buses are rather increasing day to day, creating more traffic jams.

However, the regional transportation committee (RTC) has said that they have instructed the bus owners to reduce the number of routes of their buses. We do not know whether they are telling the truth or not.

The real problem is that several buses travel in the same route which is a major problem behind creating traffic jams. A student of City college says that there are at least 6 buses that go from Science Laboratory to Motijheel. If we had proper and effective route plans for all the buses then the situation in the streets of Dhaka would not have been so much chaotic.