Garobazar-Porabari Road: Sharp turns causing accidents
A total of 95 sharp turns on 20-km-long Porabari-Garobazar road in Tangail’s Ghatail upazila have been causing accidents for long.
The sharp and unexpected turns have become a death trap for the commuters and most of the turns have no cautionary signboards.
Under the Second Rural Transport Improvement Project (RTIP-2), Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) constructed the road at a cost of Tk 24 crore, said upazila LGED engineer Mohammad Ashraf Ali, adding, that World Bank and International Development Association (IDA) jointly funded the project.
The road construction work was started in July 2015 and it was opened for public at the end of 2016.
Police and locals said Jamal Uddin, a vegetable trader, was killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between two three-wheelers at Manikpur intersection on September 29 last year.
Earlier on August 5, one Kamal Miah, 25, was killed and five others were injured when a truck ran over a rickshaw van in Garobazar area.
One Ashraf Ali, 35, was killed and two others were injured in a motorcycle accident in Chhankhole area on August 13.
Accidents mainly happen on the road due to the unexpected turns, said locals.
The most dangerous turns are in Angarkhola, Khagarata, Chichatta, Rasulpur, Mominpur, Chhankhola and Manikpur areas.
Sazzadur Rahman, a local schoolteacher, said the authorities did not give any attention to the risk of the small and big curves during construction of the road.
Nazrul Islam Khan, former upazila parishad chairman in Ghatail, said they had taken steps to construct the road straight but failed as a section of local people opposed it.
The upazila engineer said the road was constructed with the curves as there was no allocation for the project in acquiring lands.
They are now putting cautionary signboards at some points on the road, he said.
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