Eid home-goers to face tough journey
Every year people leaving the capital to celebrate Eid festivals experience immense sufferings on roads due to traffic congestions. It is feared that this time during Eid-ul-Adha, their sufferings will multiply. As The Daily Star reported on Sunday, excessive rains and flooding have left most of the roads in a miserable state.
This daily in its report has pointed out the normal choke points on our major highways, which are the main reasons for traffic snarl-ups. Now, floods and rains have aggravated the situation of the roads pushing up the average travel hours.
Furthermore, this time train operations have been suspended at some points in the northern region because floodwater has submerged rail tracks. So home-goers who prefer to have train journeys will be forced to go by road this time, which will also add to the traffic jam.
As around 80 lakh people are supposed to leave the city before Eid holidays, to mitigate their sufferings, the government should take some emergency measures.
First of all, the government should identify which roads are usable, partly usable or totally unusable, and develop an early warning system to let travellers know the road conditions. This way the travellers will have a choice to decide which roads they want to use before they start their journey home.
Then comes the issue of traffic management. More teams from the highway police should be deployed during that time to ease traffic movement at major choke points. Lastly, the totally unusable and partly unusable roads need to be repaired in order to make them usable before Eid-ul-Adha.
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