A good example of bad planning
The old adage 'measure twice, cut once' may sound clichéd but assumes a critical meaning in any project implementation. It seems that the city planners are doing exactly the opposite when it comes to planning for the capital's infrastructure. A 50 metre-carriageway of a ramp of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover is being demolished to expand the ramp towards the Sonargaon Hotel over the Karwan Bazar level crossing at the cost of Tk. 85 crore. Can we ask why is it being done now? While the idea of extending the flyover over the railway crossing is a good one, the extension is likely to exacerbate the gridlock if it ends at Sonargaon Hotel, according to a traffic survey conducted earlier this year.
The entire exercise is inexplicable. One wonders what kind of planning the concerned engineers did for the project. Are the authorities preparing to ease Dhaka's worsening traffic congestion with this sort of ill-thought-out infrastructure? Why have the planners come up with this idea which will waste such a huge amount of taxpayers' money and will only worsen the traffic jam in that particular area?
Poor planning is mistake number one in any project implementation. Failing to plan properly is planning to fail. Will the digging up of the capitals' roads in the name of "service work" ever end? Dhaka's traffic problem has already gotten out of hand. The authorities need to start planning for tomorrow, not yesterday. And departments should be held accountable for taking on projects that do little to solve the problems they are intended to.
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