Regardless of the development of a few flyovers, enabling individuals to stop their vehicles on assigned boulevards and transport stops and stern activity against wrong-side driving, movement clog in the capital city keeps on exasperating, making genuine sufferings city workers.
As indicated by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Traffic Department, congested driving conditions has turned out to be painful in the course of the most recent couple of days in some city territories, including Mirpur-12 to Mirpur-10 crossing, Rokeya Sarani, Gulshan, Banani, Badda, Moghbazar, Eskaton, Tejgaon, Airport Road and Uttara, for some, reasons, including the continuous worldwide exchange reasonable, metro rail development work and ascend in private vehicles of ride-sharing organizations. Transport and urban specialists figure the administration should find a way to guarantee adequate mass transport, reestablish teach in the vehicle part, lessen the utilization of private and little vehicles, supplant the microbuses and minibusses with single-decker, twofold decker and verbalized transports and extend the city to essentially facilitate the congested road without spending enormous cash.
The specialists additionally said the railroads and conduits can likewise be utilized successfully to ease movement weight on streets and encourage the workers bother free transportation administrations. Reached, Dr Mohammad Shamsul Hoque, a teacher of Civil Engineering Department at Buet, disclosed to UNB that numerous huge tasks have been actualized in the city capriciously without meeting effortlessly congested roads, and every one of those now ended up being insufficient.
"The way we're devastating the city with unjustified tasks in light of speculation, I'm in question whether the movement will be sensible here following 10 years. We've done numerous things like building flyover, superfluously exhausting thousands crore of taka in the course of the most recent 20 years, yet we didn't do what were vital for us," he said. Hoque, likewise a prominent transport master, said the legislature can ease road turned parking lot essentially in the city with some ease ventures and earnest activities and activities in the light of the Strategic Transport Plan (STP) reconsidered in 2015.
According to the STP, he stated, the administration must recoup the trails, make streets and convergences more usable, bring transports under a few establishments, uphold activity manages and reestablish train in the vehicle division.
Also, Hoque stated, the quantity of little vehicles, similar to auto-rickshaws, human-haulers and rickshaws, must be limited on primary streets. "We ought to instantly supplant our minibusses and microbuses with twofold decker ones to ease movement weight, upgrade transport limit and guarantee better utilization of streets. It has been demonstrated exceptionally compelling masseurs in numerous urban areas like London, Hong Kong and Moscow."
Urban master and ex-administrator of UGC, Prof Nazrul Islam said congested driving conditions is deteriorating continuously because of ascend in city populace and number of little vehicles, and for absence of successful measures to control it. "We've worked over a half many flyovers, yet it isn't an answer for take care of the issue. We won't have the capacity to decrease road turned parking lot without expanding open transport and guaranteeing better activity administration," he watched.
Resounding Hoque, the urban master said it is likewise important to actualize all mass travel related undertakings prescribed in STP with high need to enhance movement circumstance. Dr Mohammad Shakil Akther, a teacher of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) Department at Buet, stated, "The administration should make the upkeep of autos exceedingly costly to dishearten the utilization of those vehicles. Plus, he stated, the current prepare administration can assume an indispensable part in controlling rush hour gridlock blockages in the city by expanding maybe a couple more lines and presenting 10 extra passenger trains from Tongi and Narayangaj to Kamalapur and the other way around.
Also, the Buet instructor proposed utilizing the roundabout conduits for transportation of vegetable and products to the city and even travelers for lessening the activity stream on streets.
Extra DMP Commissioner (Traffic) Rezaul Karim conceded that the city has been encountering serious road turned parking lot in the course of the most recent 20 days. He supposes the activity circumstance will note ease fundamentally unless Metro Rail and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) are actualized. Answering to an inquiry, Rezaul said the expansion in the ridesharing vehicles, particularly Uber ones, on streets amid pick hours are adding to declining the activity to some degree. Another officer at the DMP Traffic Department said more than 200 new autos are presently getting enlistment consistently as ridesharing administrations have turned out to be well known.