Dying city
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The capital city is dying and it is dying fast. The four rivers surrounding the city are already dead and now they are drying up and losing both depth and width. The underground water level has gone down to a record low and could result in a devastating earthquake. The city's electricity supply is in dire straits. The traffic situation is the talk of the town. Carjacking and mugging are increasing every day and on top of that more used cars are imported and unauthorized rickshaws are legally back on the streets.
According to reports, the government has approved the Tk 2,000 crore 04 lane Dhaka Chittagong highway project which will help the city to see more traffic in the coming days. The 1st gridlock will start at the end of Kanchpur bridge and will continue all the way to Gulistan and it will probably take 2-3 hours to cross this road, which is already clogged up with heavy traffic and the misery will only increase when the Dhaka Narayanganj (Signboard to Narayanganj town) road expansion (4 lanes) project will be complete. The way the capital is going to be connected in the coming days, without proper networks of roads and bypasses, it will certainly come to a standstill by the end of the present government's tenure.
It is still not too late. The government should make efforts to change the city with high rise residential buildings, a grid/network of extremely wide cross roads, so that in the coming days if additional flyover/underpasses are required those can be built without disrupting the traffic.
We really do not want to witness the death of this city.
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