A year or so ago, we would speak of really bad traffic situations as once or twice a week phenomenon. Not any more. A year on and we are experiencing it as a daily thing. These days people experience it so intimately that they seldom even talk about it unless confronted with late attendance or some such thing in which case they have to mention the gridlocks on the streets.
Let us face it, too many vehicles are plying on too little road space coupled with the flouting of traffic laws, parking anarchy and the unauthorised occupation of footpaths. Did we mention the guardians of those traffic laws, the traffic cops? Okay, on one hand they are doing a great job containing what could have been far more chaotic but then, on the other, there is also their darker side, that they can be 'bought' to overlook offences and so on.
It is normal that at the end of the day people will blame the authorities, the government, that they have shown themselves to be inefficient and one should not expect any good result from them. But, why? It is for this very good result in all spheres that people voted them to power-at least that is what the party in power and their supporters are shouting hoarse about much of the time that they promised us the moon and they are going to deliver it-but we have to be patient (please!). We have no other choice but to wait for that to happen, even if it takes this government's entire term.
Obaidul Haque
Uttara Model Town, Dhaka
We wait for better days on the streets
FE Team | Published: December 26, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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