Crackdown on Old Vehicles
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has launched a drive against old and faulty vehicles in the capital from Thursday. Police started the drive against over 20 years old buses, minibuses and over 25 years old trucks as well as faulty vehicles .DMP has already constituted 15 teams and each team, led by a magistrate, would conduct the drive mainly aimed at solving traffic jam and checking environment pollution. The DMP Commissioner has said that the seized vehicles will be dumped into a place at Kamalapur.
According to a report, the crackdown has been launched on the thousands of decrepit and dangerous vehicles that ply
Severe traffic jam is one of the major problems gripping the people living in and around the city. This problem continues to be complicated as the population of the city is growing fast, the pressure of commuters is mounting on the roads and the influx of vehicles is increasing. The city dwellers are facing the severest ever traffic jam in the capital in recent days. One of the major causes of this situation is that new vehicles are coming to the street everyday worsening the crisis. Experts think, to ease the traffic jam in the city, the activities between DCC and traffic department should be integrated, traffic rules should be implemented strictly, and violators of the rules should be seriously dealt with. Meanwhile, the large scale import of small vehicles should be discouraged by imposing duties at a higher rate and use of public transports in increased number should be encouraged under well planned traffic system. Besides, some more flyovers and by-pass roads should be constructed on urgent basis.
It is clear that the existing communications facilities based on private cars could never help reduce the traffic congestion in the city; rather it would help increase the traffic jam. But use of private car cannot be stopped either. So it will be wiser to encourage use of mass transports and creation of wide footpaths in the capital city and discourage use of private cars to ease the acute traffic jams. The crisis is aggravated by old and faulty vehicles plying the roads. So it is a timely and correct attempt to remove these vehicles from the capital in the public interest.
It may be recalled, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently spelt out in parliament her government's detailed plans to free capital
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