The rich and lawlessness

On the Gulshan Avenue approaching the first traffic circle from south, there is a restaurant mostly being used by cash-rich youngsters. Despite availability of so many places for parking, the well-to-do young people park their vehicles indiscriminately, right across the designated pedestrian walk-way. This forces many elderly and physically unfit persons to walk at grave risk on the road with vehicles coming from behind and front, depending upon the direction one is walking during morning and evening rush hours.

This is a traffic and motor driving crime that needs to be seriously investigated into and stopped for the overall safety of pedestrians, specially the elderly. Such so-called well-to-do law breakers need exemplary punishment from traffic police authorities for violating basic and fundamental facilities of safety provided for the pedestrians. The concerned traffic authorities need to act urgently.

 As a sufferer, who cannot walk on the footpath, this writer would request the Police Commissioner, overseeing the violation of traffic rules on the south side of the Gulshan first circle and take serious preventive action to stop this habitual traffic rule violation on a daily basis. Or is it that there are different norms and rules for the so-called wealthy law breakers? Your photographers if they stop by here, particularly at evenings and weekend mornings, will be able to get photographic evidence of this traffic rule violation that is happening on a regular basis. It can be published in your daily with your observations on it, which might help stop this lawlessness.

A Gulshan resident.