Our civic sense and poor enforcement of laws
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
What is wrong with our city residents? Will we ever learn to behave properly on the streets? Do we not know how to function with regards to traffic norms? Do we need to be trained to do so just like our children have to be toilet trained?
One can readily see how many people use those foot bridges (also called 'over-bridges'). Except in places like Farm Gate or the Prime Minster's Office or one near the cantonment (which I have observed personally), we rarely see everyone using those bridges. Some do while others just run across the road. The traffic policemen do not impress upon the erring people that everyone, without exception, must use the foot bridges.
Then there is the case of the footpath. I would request the reader to observe on any given day how many people use the footpath. Some do while others prefer to use the road that is really meant for vehicles. Then again there are places where the footpath is occupied by vendors and workshops.
There are many people to park their vehicles on the footpath. Others, specially where some kind of construction is going on, pile their sand on the footpath. I saw the footpath next to a house (called BARAKOT, or some such thing) on Iqbal Road, turned into a garden! Somebody had removed the slabs and planted saplings on the footpath!
Is it because the city is overcrowded? I don't think so because then the crowds would have been packed on the footpath and then spilled onto the streets. Much of the footpath is empty where citizens are walking on the street. We need strict enforcement of traffic laws.
Rashed Chowdhury
Wari, Dhaka
One can readily see how many people use those foot bridges (also called 'over-bridges'). Except in places like Farm Gate or the Prime Minster's Office or one near the cantonment (which I have observed personally), we rarely see everyone using those bridges. Some do while others just run across the road. The traffic policemen do not impress upon the erring people that everyone, without exception, must use the foot bridges.
Then there is the case of the footpath. I would request the reader to observe on any given day how many people use the footpath. Some do while others prefer to use the road that is really meant for vehicles. Then again there are places where the footpath is occupied by vendors and workshops.
There are many people to park their vehicles on the footpath. Others, specially where some kind of construction is going on, pile their sand on the footpath. I saw the footpath next to a house (called BARAKOT, or some such thing) on Iqbal Road, turned into a garden! Somebody had removed the slabs and planted saplings on the footpath!
Is it because the city is overcrowded? I don't think so because then the crowds would have been packed on the footpath and then spilled onto the streets. Much of the footpath is empty where citizens are walking on the street. We need strict enforcement of traffic laws.
Rashed Chowdhury
Wari, Dhaka