Lack of public transport cause hardships on day of AL, BNP rallies
Around 10:30 am at the Shyamoli bus stand, Fatema Tuz Zohra was trying her best to console her ailing infant, while looking around anxiously.
She had been waiting for over an hour and a half, but was unable to board a bus to Jatrabari.
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"There is no bus. I have never seen such light traffic. I am worried about returning home," Fatema, who took her one-year-old daughter to Dhaka Shishu Hospital in the morning, told The Daily Star.
Like Fatema, thousands of commuters have been suffering since morning as the presence of public transport was relatively low in different roads in the city ahead of the BNP and Awami League rallies in the capital.
Many commuters spent several hours on the road, searching in vain for public transport. Finding no other way, many started to walk while some others were seen going to their destinations on pick-ups or rickshaw vans.
Solaiman, an employee of an office in Motijheel, said he tried for two hours but could not get on the bus.
"I will probably have to miss work today," he said around 11:00am.
Kamal Hossain, a 45-year-old private service holder, shared his experience of heading to Mohakhali from Savar.
As their bus reached the Aminbazar area in Savar, some members of police prevented it from moving towards Dhaka. Consequently, all the passengers were asked to get down.
"I had no choice but to continue on foot," Kamal said when talking to one of our correspondents at Gabtoli.
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