Water logging
Munir uz Zaman / DRIKNEWS
It is a sheer disappointment to see the water logging of Dhaka city after rain. It makes me wonder whether our engineers are aware of the fact that one of the most important design considerations of road construction is drainage. This is needed to remove water efficiently from the surface of the roads to provide a safe passage for all vehicles and pedestrians. Drainage of rainwater minimizes road maintenance cost and hence maximizes the operational lifetime of the roads. It is a simple math.
I live in a city where annual rainfall is only 3 to 4 inches and it gets hardly any downpour. Still, all the roads and highways were built with drainage underneath the road.
I am sure many of our engineers already have training from developed countries on road construction and they know that the drainages are built along with the roads and highways. This is totally absent in construction of roads and highways in Bangladesh. The top bosses simply surrender to the nature as if this is the fate of the people of the country and nothing can be done about it.
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