The roads of Bangladesh

4 October 2011, 18:00 PM

Samiha Raida, On e-mail

If you are travelling from Dhaka to another district, you must know how long it is going to take to reach the destination. But you can never reach there in time. Why? We mostly think that the jam on the roads is to blame. But besides that, we should also take a good look at the roads. Most of them are broken or damaged, with holes filled with puddles or mud. Here in Uttara, some organisations dug a road to set up some pipes a few months ago. They set up the pipes, filled the holes with mud, and left the rest of the road broken. My school is only 510 minutes away from my home. As I go by car, it must take no more than five minutes on an average. Now, it takes 1015 minutes because of the road condition. It's time the authorities took some action.