The recent changes in the timetables for offices and educational institutions and so on seem to have yielded mixed results. Sometimes the traffic seems to have eased while at other times (for the same period) there is serious traffic jams. Some say it will take time for the new change to take effect but I don't agree.
Why should it? Is this some kind of an evolutionary change that in time it will all come out perfectly? Sure, the authorities must have made some serious calculations as to how they could do a better job of controlling the traffic and easing the jams but how much of a guarantee was there that this would really work? Are we under some kind of a trial and error kind of experiment?
I took a walk in Dhanmondi Residential Area on Sunday, November 1, around noon. On that day, some of the schools were closed but even so the roads were jam packed! I could see the sheer frustration of the drivers as they tried to gain an inch this way or that with the passengers, mostly children, suffering along with them.
It was then that I noticed the vehicles parked on both sides of the road! How do we expect any improvement if we do not see the reason for the jams-there is hardly much road left to manoeuvre if more than half the road is blocked, for heaven's sake! Has it not occurred to the authorities that they have to find an alternative place for parking if the traffic pressure has to ease reasonably? Finally there is no use blaming the poor traffic cops for the traffic situation because I have seen them and the uniformed local staff (non-cops) working their hardest and trying their best to keep the vehicles moving. If anything they should be praised.
Rafiqul Islam
Babar Road, Mohammadpur
Unauthorised parking and jam
FE Team | Published: November 04, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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