nowadays. City dwellers are coming out of their homes to meet the necessities of life, while educational institutions have started to reopen and shopping centres and business establishments are now running as usual. Apart from Dhaka, other cities and towns of the country, including Chittagong, Khulna, Sylhet, Barisal, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh and Kushtia are also witnessing normal traffic movement. Classes and examinations are being held at educational institutions. The disruption in trade and commerce has also started to be reduced. General Secretary of Dhaka Road Transport Owners’ Association Khandaker Enayetullah said blockade-hartal has been continuing for about two and a half months. So, braving the panic, people are coming out of home for their livelihoods and hartal has been driven out by the rush of the crowd. In an spot survey, comments of bus drivers and traffic police revealed that traffic movement was scanty during the first two weeks of blockade and hartal. But after that scores of vehicles started coming out onto the streets like in the past. Even during the hartal, people find no respite from traffic jam. Not only in Dhaka, also in other cities of the country, hartal is not visible at daytime. But at night, the number of vehicles comes down due to petrol bomb scare. Traffic constable Habibur Rahman who was on duty at Farmgate area in the city on Thursday afternoon said, “Everything has become normal. Don’t you see that serious traffic jam has been created?” At that time, private cars, even expensive vehicles like BMW, Lexus were found plying the road along with ordinary transports. During the last two days, a very common scene of traffic movement was witnessed in different roads at Mirpur, Gabtali, Motijheel, Gulistan and Jatrabari. According to sources related to transport business, during normal time about 5,000 buses and mini-buses ply daily in and around the capital. The number now is not less than 4,000, they said. (With inputs from Abul Kashem.)
Friday, March 13, 2015
Hartal loses bite As the blockade-hartal programme of the BNP-led alliance passed off two months, hartal is no more any problem for the:Daily Sun
nowadays. City dwellers are coming out of their homes to meet the necessities of life, while educational institutions have started to reopen and shopping centres and business establishments are now running as usual. Apart from Dhaka, other cities and towns of the country, including Chittagong, Khulna, Sylhet, Barisal, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh and Kushtia are also witnessing normal traffic movement. Classes and examinations are being held at educational institutions. The disruption in trade and commerce has also started to be reduced. General Secretary of Dhaka Road Transport Owners’ Association Khandaker Enayetullah said blockade-hartal has been continuing for about two and a half months. So, braving the panic, people are coming out of home for their livelihoods and hartal has been driven out by the rush of the crowd. In an spot survey, comments of bus drivers and traffic police revealed that traffic movement was scanty during the first two weeks of blockade and hartal. But after that scores of vehicles started coming out onto the streets like in the past. Even during the hartal, people find no respite from traffic jam. Not only in Dhaka, also in other cities of the country, hartal is not visible at daytime. But at night, the number of vehicles comes down due to petrol bomb scare. Traffic constable Habibur Rahman who was on duty at Farmgate area in the city on Thursday afternoon said, “Everything has become normal. Don’t you see that serious traffic jam has been created?” At that time, private cars, even expensive vehicles like BMW, Lexus were found plying the road along with ordinary transports. During the last two days, a very common scene of traffic movement was witnessed in different roads at Mirpur, Gabtali, Motijheel, Gulistan and Jatrabari. According to sources related to transport business, during normal time about 5,000 buses and mini-buses ply daily in and around the capital. The number now is not less than 4,000, they said. (With inputs from Abul Kashem.)
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