Law-breaking students
A few days back, I was walking with a colleague down the road 11 of Banani from Gulshan-2 to reach Kakoli bus stand. As we reached the intersection where road 11 converges with the main road between Kakoli and Mohakhali, we saw that the other side of the road leading to Kakoli was jammed with traffic. However, the other side which leads to Mohakhali was quite free. At that moment, in front of the traffic policeman, a decrepit double-decker bus carrying Jagannath University students forcefully got into the wrong side and was heading for Kakoli defying all oncoming vehicles. I raised my hands to gesture at the double-decker driver as to what he was doing. Instantly the students inside the bus waved back at me through the open windows with funny gestures, implying that they simply don't care about intruding into the wrong side of the road. I went to the standing traffic policeman and asked why he allowed the double-decker to get into the wrong side. He replied helplessly that these double-deckers carrying students do not care to break into the wrong side any time of the day. In the mornings they do it rampantly. In fact the students force the bus drivers to do that and they simply don't care what the standing traffic policemen have to say.
This is the reality of the buses carrying the students of Dhaka University and Jagannath University. Does it mean that the law enforcers are helpless about students breaking laws?
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