Banani bridge & traffic management
The new Banani bridge connecting Banani and Gulshan has been a great relief for people of these two areas as well as people who come to visit this part of the city. The bridge was well managed at the beginning, but recently things have been let loose. First of all, there is no constant traffic policeman at this important bridge. Rickshaws, motorbikes even sometimes cars try to take advantage of this by coming from the opposite direction in this one-way bridge creating possibilities of accidents. Also, this bridge was rickshaw free at the beginning. Now, rickshaws have been allowed creating traffic jam. For the greater interest of Banani residents and for easing traffic jam, I will request the authorities concerned to provide traffic police in this bridge at least during commuting times for office and schools. Also, this bridge has significantly increased traffic flow at Road #11 at Banani. This road should immediately be made off-limits to rickshaws and this can also be turned into a one-way road as Kemal Ataturk Avenue runs parallel and that can be made one-way the other way around. Let's face it, it will be years before subways can be built in Dhaka. Till then, we must be smarter about traffic jam to make our city liveable, no one else will do it for us, we have to solve our problems by ourselves. This is a good time to start addressing the big problems through small steps and one step at a time. Kolkata can be a good example of how they have smartly managed their traffic by turning some key roads into one-way during peak times and reverse one-way after 1:00pm as well as turning all major roads off-limits to rickshaws and making auto-rickshaws run on selected routes only. We can start by implementing it at a few selective roads and take it on from there.
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