Various measures including enforcing one-way traffic, prohibiting parking, restricting movement of rickshaws and deploying more traffic officials to oversee the situation have apparently failed to ease the overall situation.

Children shambling with their schoolbags and toddling their way to the school amid almost static tailback especially in the mornings and afternoons is a common sight in Siddheshwari, Kakrail, Motijheel, Malibagh, Gulshan, Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur areas where some of the renowned schools are located.

Queues of private cars and rickshaws are parked haphazardly on both sides of the roads while homebound students and guardians are seen standing and anxiously waiting for a transport beside the half-encroached pavement during school hours every day.

"As I have to drop my son off at his school in Motijheel before I go to my office, I'm always late to my office as it takes about half an hour just to get out of the gridlocks," said Sultan Ahmed from Malibagh.

To make things even more chaotic, more vehicles including rickshaws tend to rashly push their way on the wrong side of the road trying to find passage, making a Gordian knot.

"Although we discourage them to do so, the parents tend to push their way through the jam and bring their cars in front of the school entrance, making things even worse," said an on duty sergeant from the intersection near Viqarunnisa Noon School and College.

Shahan-Ara Karim, a housewife from Shantinagar was waiting for a transport on the pavement of Viqarunnisa Noon School. She was frantically waving to the passing taxis and three-wheelers for a ride back home with her daughters.

After anxiously waiting half an hour in the chaos, she started walking towards her home. Ten minutes later, she finally got a rickshaw.

"As both my daughters study in that school, I have to face this chaotic traffic situation twice every day," said Shahan-Ara Karim.

While seemingly endless queues of traffic in front of the city schools continue to be an everyday nuisance for city dwellers, traffic officials admitted that their initiatives seem to have a little effect on the situation.

"Although we are constantly taking measures to improve the traffic situation near schools, we are yet to find any tangible solution to this problem, said an authorised official from the Traffic Department of DMP, seeking anonymity.

"We can't do much without the assistance of the school authorities and the parents. Especially the parents need to be more conscious and responsive towards the convenience of the their fellow commuters," he added.

But talking to Star City, most of the school authorities said their role in improving the traffic situation in front of the schools is quite minimal.

Principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School, one of the schools infamous for traffic congestion in front of it, could not be reached despite repeated attempts. But the school staff said they do not have any plans regarding the traffic situation in front of the school.

Syed Hafizul Islam, headmaster of Government Laboratory School, said that the school authorities have a little to do with the traffic situation.

However, Golam Rahman, an official from Oxford International School, said the initiatives taken by the school authorities have improved the situation with assistance from the community police.