Remove chaos in the transport sector, make roads safer
Govt must reduce air pollution, bring order in transport sector
BRTA’s retreat from a poorly planned and enforced decision raises questions
BRTA must fast-track the process to ease the suffering of the affected
It is time to form a commission to drive reforms in transport sector
The authority needs to get its act together, start operating efficiently
The Eid festivities in April marked a grim milestone with a record number of road traffic accidents and casualties.
Questions have been raised by road safety activists as to whether a human life can be valued at only Tk 5 lakh.
Govt attitude must change for such tragedies to end
Four brokers have been jailed in Bogura on charges of being involved in corruption at the local office of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).
Fitness checks of all buses and trucks registered with BRTA Mirpur office are being done manually, as the only automated vehicle inspection system that had been working broke down three months ago.
The High Court asks Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to submit a report before it on the unfit vehicles plying the streets across the country and drivers without valid license.
Damning reports along with horrendous pictures about the state of our transport sector were published in all our major national dailies yesterday.
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has suspended operations of all buses of Suprobhat and Jabal-e-Noor on Dhaka routes until further directives.
The Anti-Corruption Commission found irregularities in Bangladesh Road Transport Authority's offices in Dhaka's Ekuria, Khulna, Sylhet and Pabna yesterday.
Obaidul Quader took charge of Communication Ministry, now Road Transport and Bridges Ministry, on December 5, 2011 and at a programme at BRTA headquarters on December 27 that year, ordered to put a stop to activities of “brokers” in the organisation.
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) said it was unable to frame the rules for the Road Transport Act-2018 and asked the ministry concerned to hire a consultant instead.
The number of driving licence-seekers has seen a sharp rise following the unprecedented student protest for road safety in July-August, and the authorities are struggling to cope with the pressure due to inadequate training facilities and manpower.
A mobile court of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) yesterday shifted its focus on jaywalkers, as drives against traffic rule violators went on in Dhaka and Chittagong.
