Build some small flyovers

18 October 2012, 18:00 PM

O. H. Kabir, Hare Street, Wari, Dhaka

Photo: SK Enamul Haq

If we can build several giant flyovers in Dhaka, why can't we build a few small two-storied and three-storied flyovers to ease and tame Dhaka's terrible traffic jam? Almost daily on our main and busy roads, hundreds of running vehicles such as buses, trucks, cars, CNG-run auto rickshaws, rickshaws, pushcarts, etc., halt abruptly at road squares, road crossings and road intersections several times. This creates terrible traffic jam and the sufferings of the people know no bound. We feel it is imperative that our ministry of communications, Roads and Highways Department, RAJUK, DMP, DCC and others concerned sit together and consider constructing of small flyovers at 1) Airport road railway crossing, 2) Bangla Motors, 3) Eskaton rail gate, 4) Shahbagh, 5) Topkhana-Naya Paltan and 6) Nawabpur-English Road, for the smooth movement of traffic and relief of millions of people of Dhaka.