An SOS
Barely were the miseries of the residents surrounding the Gulshan-Banani redressed since my letter on 'Gulshan-Banani Bridge' got published in the Letters to the Editor column of The Daily Star sometime back. As the situation is seemingly turning worse, I am now forced to write on another menace that is currently compounding the miseries of the residents, living around the bridge.
This letter is also meant to be an SOS from the residents who desire and deserve immediate attention from the police chief to help us lead our daily life and activity peacefully.
As the right arm of the bridge passes almost kissing my apartment (Flat B, Building 39, Road 35 A), I am trying to find recourse through your column to the growing problems, caused by the teenage motorcycle riders. The painfully irksome problem that my family and the nearby residents are confronted with needs immediate redress from the law-enforcement authorities.
A large number of young motorcycle riders, numbering about 20-25 throng the section of the Gulshan-Banani bridge, right under my flat, soon after the sundown and begin racing and demonstrating several riding tricks provoking shouts and shrills from the stationary and gathering bystanders. The cacophony at some point reaches a crescendo. To add to the woes come the cars, with howlers fixed as exhaust and disco music blaring from their car-stereos, which turns life of my family and the lives of the residents of the surrounding area into 'virtual hell'. Besides, they choke the one-way arm of the bridge forcing the rushing traffic to resort to wholesale honking which is multiplying the woes of the peace-loving senior citizens like us.
In addition, the bridge also turns into a rendezvous for 'floating prostitutes', drug peddlers and polythene snuffers, criminalizing the entire environs, and it transforms into a parking lot for many motorcycles, cars, rickshaws and vendors, seriously augmenting the existing sufferings of the dwellers and impeding the traffic flow.
The residents of the area strongly feel that a strong police vigil from 7:00pm to 11:00pm, the prime time for the mischief-mongers, can only stop the notoriety perpetrated by the troublemakers.
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