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Expand road networks to ease city traffic jam

Says survey

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a survey presentation yesterday called for building alternative bypass, circular and link roads to ease traffic jam in Dhaka metropolitan areas.
They warned that around three lakh vehicles would be plying on the main city streets during the peak hours in 2024 against the present one lakh vehicles.
The survey presentation on 'The Strategic Transport Plan for Dhaka City' was held at the National Press Club in the city.
To expand the city road networks the government has undertaken a 20-year-long strategic transportation plan (STP) under which a US company Luis Berger Group and local consultant company Bangladesh Consultants Ltd carried out a joint one-year survey of road transport system in Dhaka city from March 2004.
Presenting some salient features of the survey the speakers said the population of Greater Dhaka City is expected to rise to 3.60 crore in 2024.
They said the existing traffic control system in the city is very poorly managed which is why the traffic in the city during the peak hours experiences unnecessary congestion.
"Unlike the industrialised nations where traffic control system is completely managed by a separate agency, law enforcers are carrying out this duty in the capital city, said the speakers.
They urged the government to develop a separate traffic controlling body to ensure smooth movement of vehicles on the streets.
The speakers said the STP has suggested coordination among the major public service providing agencies like Dhaka City Corporation, Dhaka Wasa and Rajuk to minimise the sufferings of the city dwellers.
"We have noticed that when
these agencies work on the roads for repairs or for new construction
without any coordination among
themselves, the sufferings of the people increase enormously," they added.
The speakers said if the STP is implemented an estimated US$ 4
billion would be required to expand the road transport network in the city.
Private sector would be encouraged to provide fund for the project, they added.