Vehicles beyond 20 yrs old won't be allowed to ply in city
Monday, 31 August 2009
FE Report
Dhaka city traffic jam coordinating committee has issued a letter to the Bangladesh Roads Transport Authority (BRTA) to correct its notification related to the maximum age of vehicles that would be allowed to ply in the capital from 15 years to 20 years.
The committee held a meeting with its convenor Shafiq Alam Mehedi in the chair on Sunday and decided to issue the letter for immediate withdrawal of vehicles beyond 20 years old considering the city's traffic congestion.
Seizure of old vehicles from the city's streets has been halted following the age limit conflict between the home, which proposed 15 years maximum, and communication ministry 20 years maximum.
However, Dhaka Metropolitan Police is continuing their actions against vehicles without necessary documents and route permits. On Sunday, DMP seized 105 motor vehicles and 83 rickshaws on these grounds.
The sources said the coordinating committee reviewed the decisions taken since the city experienced traffic deadlock from the beginning of Ramadan and requested all concerned including mobile courts, police, Dhaka City Corporation to strengthen respective activities to give respite the city people from the traffic jam.
The convenor said the present government is sincerely trying to resolve the city's traffic problems and taking all possible steps to address those.
He said they have received support from magistrates to head the mobile courts and hoped that the city's traffic congestion may improve gradually.
Dhaka city traffic jam coordinating committee has issued a letter to the Bangladesh Roads Transport Authority (BRTA) to correct its notification related to the maximum age of vehicles that would be allowed to ply in the capital from 15 years to 20 years.
The committee held a meeting with its convenor Shafiq Alam Mehedi in the chair on Sunday and decided to issue the letter for immediate withdrawal of vehicles beyond 20 years old considering the city's traffic congestion.
Seizure of old vehicles from the city's streets has been halted following the age limit conflict between the home, which proposed 15 years maximum, and communication ministry 20 years maximum.
However, Dhaka Metropolitan Police is continuing their actions against vehicles without necessary documents and route permits. On Sunday, DMP seized 105 motor vehicles and 83 rickshaws on these grounds.
The sources said the coordinating committee reviewed the decisions taken since the city experienced traffic deadlock from the beginning of Ramadan and requested all concerned including mobile courts, police, Dhaka City Corporation to strengthen respective activities to give respite the city people from the traffic jam.
The convenor said the present government is sincerely trying to resolve the city's traffic problems and taking all possible steps to address those.
He said they have received support from magistrates to head the mobile courts and hoped that the city's traffic congestion may improve gradually.