Traffic Jam in Dhaka City

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LOGAN Gazi Md Badruzzaman

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Traffic jam in Dhaka City

What is Traffic Jam Traffic jam in Dhaka city & Bangladesh Causes Solution What can I do? What can you do?

What is traffic jam ?

A situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly

Dhaka City and Congestion

Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh. Population :More than 1.5 core people Dhaka is also one of the world's most densely populated cites. 8th largest city in the world. 400,000 cycle-rickshaws running on its streets every day, the

city is described as the Rickshaw Capital of the World.

1) Rickshaw 2) Motor cycle 3) Taxi4) Private Car and 5) Public Bus

Transport media in Dhaka city

Public Bus, 30%

Rickshaw, 30%

Private Car, 25%

Taxi, 11%Others,4%

Public Bus Rickshaw Private Car Taxi Others

Current traffic percentage in Dhaka

Time loss due to congestion

In this mega city, people on an average spend 2.20 hours in the traffic of which 1.15 hours are due to traffic jam. It means they are loosing 1.15 hours everyday due to traffic jam. More than 1000 million passengers

travel by road every day, worldwide.

If a passenger lose 1 minute

everyday , in traffic congestion,

total annual time loss is

700,000 YEARS !!!

Time loss due to congestion

60%

Poper Transportation time

Time loss due to congestion

Insufficient amount of roads.

Poor Traffic Administration.

Wrong Parking.

Unfit Vehicles & Illegal License.

Construction Works.

Hawkers.

No Alternative of Buses.

Political Meeting and Rally

Indifference of Government

Unconsciousness of People

Overtaking Tendency Uneducated Drivers Extra Private Cars Accident

ETC

Encroachment of roads and sidewalksStreet vendors, Hawkers and street front shop owners occupy above 60% of the 163-km footpaths of Dhaka City. The sidewalks are also filled up by construction materials, garbage or even temporary houses of homeless people or beggars. Very often pedestrians are forced to walk on the main roads instead of using the sidewalks because of these reasons.

Violation of Traffic rules and regulations

There is a lack of education and consciousness among the citizenry about the traffic rules. People who come to the city from villages for employment, rickshaw pulling becomes the most easily available job for them. They do not need any formal training to start this profession. In most of the cases, they do not even take a legal license. Most of the time, the pedestrians crosses the busy streets even if there is no crosswalk. People do not usually use the over bridges or underpasses, which are constructed in the important and busy intersections of the city. The buses do not stop at the bus stops, they stop just at the intersection points, and rickshaws always follow them. As a result, the intersections of the busy roads always remain crowded by the people and different types of vehicles.

City lay-out and over-population

The causes of traffic congestion in Dhaka city are multifarious. Starting from the city itself, it is observed that the skeleton, structure and lay-out of Dhaka City are not well-planned and well-directed. Dhaka is also a highly populated city. More than one core people live here and the figure is increasing day by day. This huge population acts as an auto-catalyst of traffic congestion in Dhaka City.

Inadequate and unplanned roads

Dhaka City has very inadequate road networks. For a standard city, where the minimum road requirement is 25%, Dhaka has only 7.5% road of its total area. 30% of this 7.5% road is also occupied by the hawkers, salesman and shopkeepers. A significant portion is occupied by construction materials and waste-containers of the City Corporation. As a result, vehicles do not get sufficient space to move on.

Heterogeneous vehicles and inadequate public transport

Dhaka is a city of heterogeneous vehicles. Human puller to latest model automobile, mechanical to non-mechanical, slow to fast-moving, nothing left on the road of Dhaka. It is quite difficult to control all these vehicles on the same road as they have different speed capacity. Besides this, public transport system in Dhaka city is not adequate and properly-routed. Instead of big and spacious buses, presence of large number of mini-buses and private vehicles can only contribute to carry few passengers, but not to reduction of traffic congestion.

Rail crossing

Everyday we are experiencing movement of 74 trains to and from Dhaka. On an average, it takes five minutes to get the clearance for each crossing. Thus in one crossing, everyday the vehicles stop for six hours that is really difficult to offset.

Insufficient parking arrangement and road blockage

Limited parking arrangement is another major cause of excessive traffic in Dhaka City. It has become a regular practice to park the car on road. Even during rush hours, people are seen loading and unloading their vehicles on a busy road. City transports also stop here and there without any valid reason. The three major bus stations, Sayedabad, Gabtoli and Mohakhalido not have sufficient capacity to accommodate all the buses operating from here. A recent addition to road blockage is the long queue of vehicles at CNG stations, which is really difficult to overcome.

Insufficient amount of roads

Poor Traffic Administration.

Wrong Parking.

Unfit Vehicles & Illegal License.

Hawkers.

No Alternative of Buses.

Overtaking Tendency

Unconsciousness of People

Political Meeting and Rally

Extra Private Cars

What Govt. Can Do…

Government Should Take Necessary Steps:

Our government should take many hard steeps to remove the problem.

1) Government should build up highway road, over bridge, build up alternative road etc.

2) Good car parking system and hard rules against those people who keep their vehicles

besides the road and other public place should be ensured by the government.

3) Hawkers who build up their business spot beside important places should be removed.

4) Old or expired vehicles should be removed from Dhaka city.

5)Rickshaw should not run on important roads in Dhaka.

6)Hard rules could be imposed against those rich people whose family uses many vehicles

unnecessarily.

7) Government can order to transfer some of industries, offices, educational institutions,

hospitals outside the city.

8) We should be conscious and if we follow all traffic rules and regulations, we shall be

able to remove traffic jam from Dhaka city.

Government Should Take Necessary Steps:

Infrastructure development.

Express highways to be built.

Private participation in road development.

Low budget development of junctions.

Reduction of Junctions.

Widening of busy roads.

More public transport systems.

Implement Metro Rails in Metros and big cities

How to reduce Traffic Jam

Hawker less Pavement & Roads

Separate Lanes

Alternative Transport

Double Decker

Metro rail

Parking Lots

Car Pooling

Little More Conscious