Road building would cost far less than flyovers
Thursday, 8 April 2010
A major step toward a sustainable solution of the traffic jam problem involves increasing the number of roads and lanes. Ring roads, link roads and bypass roads are all needed. The number of the same must be increased for these to have a relieving effect on jams. Specially, the building of bypass roads will mean that inter district buses and trucks that go through Dhaka city and add to its jams will no longer do so and this should have a positive impact on traffic movement.
The cost of building many such roads would not be even half the cost of building only one flyover but the benefits could be quite a lot. A huge and sprawling city like Dhaka with a huge population should have at least 25 per cent of its area as roads whereas road spaces are only about 8 per cent in the city at present. New road building should therefore get priority and the same must be built to be durable and must be maintained throughout the year to ensure ease and speed of movement.
Md Nurul Islam
Rajarbag, Dhaka
The cost of building many such roads would not be even half the cost of building only one flyover but the benefits could be quite a lot. A huge and sprawling city like Dhaka with a huge population should have at least 25 per cent of its area as roads whereas road spaces are only about 8 per cent in the city at present. New road building should therefore get priority and the same must be built to be durable and must be maintained throughout the year to ensure ease and speed of movement.
Md Nurul Islam
Rajarbag, Dhaka