Traffic jam

Experts say the government should take pragmatic steps, including ensuring sufficient mass transport and restoring discipline in the transport sector, to tackle the crisis

Despite the construction of several flyovers, allowing people to park their vehicles on designated streets and bus stops,
and stern action against wrong-side driving, traffic congestion in Dhaka continues to aggravate, causing serious sufferings to city commuters.

According to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Traffic Department, traffic jam has become intolerable over the last few days in some city areas, including Mirpur-12 to Mirpur-10 crossing, Rokeya Sarani, Gulshan, Banani, Badda, Moghbazar, Eskaton, Tejgaon, Airport Road and Uttara, for many reasons, including the ongoing Dhaka International Trade Fair, metro rail construction work and rise in private vehicles of ride-sharing companies.

Transport and urban experts think the government should take pragmatic steps to ensure sufficient mass transport,
restore discipline in the transport sector, reduce the use of private and small vehicles, replace the microbuses
and minibuses with single-decker, double-decker and articulated buses and expand the city to significantly ease the traffic jam without spending huge money.

The experts also said the railways and waterways can also be used effectively to ease traffic pressure on roads and facilitate the commuters hassle-free transportation services.

The government should make more parking spaces for people to park their cars because most of the time traffic jams occur because of people parking their cars on the streets. Shift some public or private schools, official institutes, etc. from Dhaka to decrease the pressure of cars from the streets.
Restrict the rickshaws from driving in the main roads and build more public transport and educate the drivers to follow the lanes properly that can also somewhat decrease the traffic jam.