Rickshaws to be banned on 3 roads
DSCC mayor announces drive
Three roads of the capital will be made off-limits to rickshaws from July 7 to improve the traffic situation.
The roads are Kuril to Sayedabad via Rampura and Khilgaon, Gabtoli to Azimpur via Asad Gate, and Science Laboratory intersection to Shahbagh intersection.
Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon said this after emerging from a meeting of a special committee formed in this regard at his office yesterday. He also said that they will take steps to clear footpaths of the three roads from grabbers and remove unauthorised vehicles during a drive.
Talking to journalists, Mayor Khokon said the two city corporations of Dhaka will begin the weeklong drive on the selected roads to implement the committee’s agenda. City corporation officials and traffic division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police will work together.
After one week, the committee will hold another meeting to evaluate the outcome of the drive and decide the next course of action. Rajuk will also conduct simultaneous drives to demolish illegal structures on the roads, he added.
Gradually streets of Dhaka will be freed from footpath-grabbers, Mayor Khokon said.
On June 19, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader announced formation of the special committee, led by Mayor Khokon, at the 12th board meeting of Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority.
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam, representatives from police, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority have been included in the committee.
The committee was formed to identify and remove unauthorised rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and battery-run rickshaws and free footpaths from grabbers in the next two months.