Reducing traffic congestion

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is a small and unplanned city crammed with a prodigious number of people. The excessive number of people requires an excessive number of transports. The traffic congestion resulting from excessive number of vehicles; especially private cars , illegal parking, occupation of roads and pavements by hawkers, unwillingness of reckless drivers to abide by traffic rules and so on has been a nagging and intractable problem in everyday life of city dwellers. The sufferings and miseries of the commuters, passengers and travellers resulting from suffocating traffic stalemates have gone beyond tolerable limits. Besides, traffic congestion is causing immense loss of valuable working hours of the people. So, the government should immediately come forward with pragmatic and substantive solutions to address the nagging problem. The government should ask the authorities concerned to be strict and unflagging enough to make the people and vehicle-drivers abide by the traffic rules, to stop illegal parking, to stop picking up passengers here and there, to stop unfit vehicles from plying, to resist trucks from entering into the city before 9:00pm, to restrict and, if needed, ban the movement of rickshaws on the roads where buses are available to smoothen the traffic movements. Exemplary punishment along with substantial fines should be meted out to those who flout and recklessly break traffic rules. The government should impose a significant amount of tax on private car imports and on road permits. The number of double-decker buses that can accommodate many passengers at a time and local buses should be increased to reduce the magnitude of the problem. The people should be encouraged to walk small distance instead of riding rickshaws on the way where buses regularly ply. More consciousness about traffic rules should be raised among the people. The government should also ask the school authorities to make arrangements and to run school-vans and school-buses for the safe transportation of the school-children and to assure the guardians of their safe transportation and to stop them from waiting on the roads for their children with cars causing serious tailback.
The government should relocate the garments factories and some other less important mills and factories to the outskirts of Dhaka and can set up underground railway communication networks to permanently remove the problem.