Unfit vehicles to be driven off Dhaka streets

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A special drive launches today (Friday) with a number of mobile courts to rid the capital city of severe traffic jams during the holy month of Ramadan by driving unfit and unlicensed vehicles off the streets in the first knock, reports UNB.
An 11-member committee headed by the additional secretary of the communications ministry was formed at a meeting Thursday to supervise the operation 'clean street'.
The communications ministry arranged the meeting on easing traffic jams ahead of the Ramadan at the ministry. Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain was in the chair.
At the meeting, the communications ministry made some recommendations for easing the traffic gridlock during the Ramadan.
The action plan includes checking illegal parking of vehicles on two sides of the city streets, ensuring bus stoppage at only specific stoppages, curtailing bus-stoppage time, measures preventing the stacking of construction and business materials on roadsides, eviction of hawkers from the streets and construction of dedicated lanes for buses and minibuses.
Emerging from the meeting, Syed Abul Hossain told journalists that the government had taken many plans to rid the city of the nagging traffic tailbacks.