Traffic Jam

Well facilitated transportation system is one of the major attractions of the urban life. But now a day, urban traffic system has become a major problem in daily life. It costs our valuable time reduce the productivity through creating pressure & frustration. In the year of 1999, when I was a college student, I missed many classes in the morning session due to heavy traffic. . Sometimes it took more than 1 hour 30 minutes to go 3 km (approx).

Definitely overcrowded populations, insufficient roads, increasing number of vehicles are the most common reasons. Beside these, there are also few issues that have worsened the situation like -

• Mix of fuel and labor driven vehicles: In Dhaka city, rickshaw is one of the common transport which runs by the human being. The speed of rickshaw can hardly be 25% of fuel driven vehicles including public buses, subject to the available free road. The different speed is not the main problem. The problem occurs when they are running on the same way, one after another. Such imbalanced mix causes terrible situation.

• Unplanned bus stoppage: Very few separate spaces are available for bus stoppage in our city. Vehicles, both public & private, are standing on the running road which results a queue behind. In addition to these, local services don’t have any stoppage to drop and pick. Each & every steps are their stoppage which results the same situation. We can take a look on the “Airport road” to know a better concept for bus stoppage.

• Car parking on the roads: Even in Motijheel, the busiest commercial area of the country, we can see the cars are parked on the running roads. As there are few opportunities to widen these road and few buildings have their own parking lot, some multi-storied car parking’s have been introduced, they are not being properly utilized.

• Junctions causing Crossings and “U” turn: Very common feature of Dhaka city is too much junction in the roads. One may get right or left turn in every 100/200 meters. Every right turn cause two signal which results waiting time for both the ways.

• Impatient behavior of vehicles and people: People seem to be very much impatient whether they are walking through the road or sitting on the driving seat. Every one wants to go first; even sometime they don’t care about the traffic rules.

• Others: Beyond these above reasons, running on wrong way, electric-posts on the roads, and so on causes heavy traffic through shrinking the road. Moreover we have a male practice to use roads on our personal matters.

If we carefully go through these problems, everybody will find the solution. May be individuals will think the best solution for specific problem. What we need is to implement the system. And we can solve many of these problems just being careful in our daily life.