Effective public transport systems demanded
Speakers at a press conference yesterday demanded government initiatives to make the public transportation system more effective and passengers-friendly to reduce the city's traffic congestion.
Around 95 percent of city-dwellers commute on public transports, on rickshaws and on foot. So it is a must to make the public transport comfortable to ease traffic jam, they said.
The speakers placed the demand at the press conference on ''Initiatives of the communication ministry to reduce traffic jam: Our views'' organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolan (POBA) at its office, said a press release.
They viewed that without imposing restriction on private cars, it is impossible to ease traffic congestion in the city.
Critical of the government's decision that people who will not use foot overbridge have to face a day's imprisonment, the speakers said pedestrians will be seemed criminal for this action, although there is not initiative to control reckless driving.
POBA Chairman Abu Naser Khan, urban planner Maruf Rahman, and policy analyst Syeed Mahbubul Alam, among others, were present at the function.
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