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100 school buses in two months

Govt keeps faith in automated signals in controlling city traffic

BSS, Dhaka
The government will continue to control Dhaka's traffic using automated signals and introduce 100 specialised school buses in next two months to ease traffic congestion in the city.
The decisions came from an inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Home Minister Sahara Khatun at the home ministry yesterday.
There are only 70 automatic traffic signals in the city of which 59 are now in operation and the rest 11 are inoperative.
The meeting instructed the concerned authorities to make the inoperative signals operational immediately, meeting
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It also decided to introduce automatic traffic signalling system at all intersections of the capital within the shortest possible time.
The meeting, after reviewing operation of the ongoing automatic traffic signal system that started from Sunday following a decision of the parliamentary standing committee on home ministry, decided to continue it instead of manual operation.
The system will run in two modes- -one during peak hours and another during off-peak hours. It could be readjusted considering speed and flow of vehicles running on the roads.
The automatic traffic signalling system was earlier controlled by the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) but from now on it would be controlled by TYaffic Department of the DMP, the sources added.
A Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) representative told the meeting that it will introduce 100 specialised buses for students within the next two months to reduce traffic congestion in the city's Gulshan, Banani, Uttara and Dhanmondi areas.
The buses will carry students from selected bus stops and reach their schools and colleges like the Dhaka University transport system.
The BRTC will also procure 400 more buses for the purpose to lessen pressure on private cars for carrying students in those areas, the official added.
According to an official of the home ministry, the government, like developed countries, is contemplating imposing restriction on the use of more than one private car by a family to reduce the traffic congestion.
The government may
impose additional tax on those who will use more than one private vehicle, the official added. .
The DMP will launch a weeklong motivational cam-paign from December 1 to encourage drivers to obey the automatic traffic signalling system, the meeting sources said, adding that the police will take stem actions against the drivers who will violate the signalling system from Decembers.
The meeting also laid emphasis on smooth coordination between the DCC and the traffic department of the DMP.
Home Secretary Md Abdus Sobhan Sikder, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and BRTC, director general of Bangladesh Railway, chief engineer of DCC and DMP commissioner, among others, attended the meeting.