N'ganj traffic in chaos due to unplanned road digging
Long tailbacks and people's sufferings have been a common scenario for the last few days at Chashara in Narayanganj city as roads were dug repeatedly in an unplanned way, alleged locals.
Businessman Saifuddin said he recently missed an urgent meeting as he first had to wait for a bus for almost half an hour and then his CNG-run auto-rickshaw could not reach the destination in time due to heavy traffic congestion.
It took a bus a maximum of five minutes to reach Chashara from Number-2 gate of Narayanganj city, while a rickshaw makes it in eight minutes but now it is taking more than half an hour, said Saifuddin.
Redwan, who used to supply breads at Chashara, also faced huge sufferings as his rickshaw-van got stuck in a recently-dug pit on the road.
Locals complained that the repair work could have been done at night, when traffic movement remains light and the work was not done sincerely and properly for which Wasa needed to do it again.
Last week, Narayanganj Maintenance, Operation and Distribution Services (MODS) of WASA dug the same road before Santona Market twice for repairing pipelines. Wasa had to dig the road for a third time as a pipe on the other portion of the road got leaked, according to Deputy Assistant Engineer of Dhaka Wasa Riazul Islam.
He also said Wasa preferred the daytime in order to do the work carefully and the repair work completed on Thursday.
Most of the roads including Dhaka-Narayanganj Link Road and Dhaka-Pagla-Narayanganj Old Road remained blocked with traffic in the last few days, said locals.
Traffic Inspector of Narayanganj Sharfuddin said Wasa dug up the road four days ago and now it was doing it again.
Acting Chief Executive Officer of Narayanganj City Corporation Mahmudur Rahman said they sent several letters to Wasa following complaints by residents to fix pipeline leaks for which Wasa launched the repair work.
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