Improving communication network of city
Friday, 6 January 2012
The government is taking up some development projects such as elevated expressway, metro rail and flyovers, to further improve the road communication network in the city. According to experts, these projects, including the proposed 26-kilometre elevated expressway, will rather increase traffic congestions in the city.
The experts have expressed their views that only five per cent people of Dhaka will be temporarily benefited from the elevated expressway and it will hinder further development of rail communications and will create pollution and increased dependency on fuel. Implementation of the metro rail project in the city will benefit only four per cent of the city dwellers.
It is reported that about 95 per cent of people in the city use rickshaw, rail, bus and other mass transports besides walking to their places of work, but no such effective steps have been taken to facilitate their movement. Dhaka is losing its feature as a habitable city on the face of a rapidly increasing population and vehicles simultaneously. The time has come for the government to take steps to halt the increasing flow of people to Dhaka city. But bifurcating Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) cannot be the solution or way of mitigating the massive sufferings of the city dwellers.
By means of political and administrative decentralisation, the government can encourage the development of education and healthcare facilities and industries in other cities and towns. Many national leaders have earlier expressed their opinions in favour of the concept of political and administrative decentralisation.
Ibnat Islam Etu & Ibsan Islam Edi
Kalabagan, Dhaka
Email: saiful_ibsan@yahoo.com
The experts have expressed their views that only five per cent people of Dhaka will be temporarily benefited from the elevated expressway and it will hinder further development of rail communications and will create pollution and increased dependency on fuel. Implementation of the metro rail project in the city will benefit only four per cent of the city dwellers.
It is reported that about 95 per cent of people in the city use rickshaw, rail, bus and other mass transports besides walking to their places of work, but no such effective steps have been taken to facilitate their movement. Dhaka is losing its feature as a habitable city on the face of a rapidly increasing population and vehicles simultaneously. The time has come for the government to take steps to halt the increasing flow of people to Dhaka city. But bifurcating Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) cannot be the solution or way of mitigating the massive sufferings of the city dwellers.
By means of political and administrative decentralisation, the government can encourage the development of education and healthcare facilities and industries in other cities and towns. Many national leaders have earlier expressed their opinions in favour of the concept of political and administrative decentralisation.
Ibnat Islam Etu & Ibsan Islam Edi
Kalabagan, Dhaka
Email: saiful_ibsan@yahoo.com