Traffic rules mauled
Please do not make a news item with a big picture (on the 1st page) just to fill up the space. I did not get any in depth message out of your mega picture of traffic on the street (DS 6th Oct.), for complaints and their replies were already there in your staff correspondent's coverage. If you wanted you could print only the street picture with the hackney carriage in the almost empty Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, just as that.
My message to your correspondent is: please take note that streets in most places are usually empty or less crowded during pre and post holidays. And there is nothing uncommon. And whenever there is no rush of traffic, presence of traffic police is scanty for valid reasons. There is nothing much to grumble about!
I want you to write on genuine things viz. haphazard parking, allowing business on footpaths and even on main roads (come on to Eskaton-Bangla Motor area and see displaying and repairing of motor bikes and installation of glass & motor parts); building of overbridges (not suitable for school children, their parents, elderly passers-by and handicapped road users) instead of 'under-ground'/sub-ways comfortable for all and very convenient during inclement weather; installation of auto-signal lights spending hundreds of thousands of taka but not following them; creating unnecessary jams for unlimited time in the name of VIP roads (come to Bangla Motor and watch 'the VIPs' using the road during the whole day(!)'. You can also see, at times, misuse of police patrol numbering over dozens, including some senior officials stopping people from crossing the roads, instead of using the overbridge.
(Privately speaking, the proposal was to build an 'underground subway' at Bangla Motor, but maybe for 'unknown reasons' it was abandoned and at last the overbridge was built.)
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