A circular bus service, covering the Motijheel, Dhanmondi, and Uttara areas will be launched in April to ease traffic congestion in the capital.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner,Asaduzzaman Mia, revealed this inaugurating ‘Traffic discipline Week’ on Sunday.
The DMP chief said he has already talked to the mayors of Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation to this end. "With their cooperation, bus services will be run by six companies. The process has already started."
Mentioning that work on mass rapid transit (MRT), bus rapid transit (BRT) and elevated expressway is underway to be completed within two years, he said the entire traffic scenario will change once those services are opened.
Awareness programs will be carried out extensively to sensitize people to using footbridges, underpasses, and zebra crossings, Asaduzzaman Mia said.
The DMP Traffic Division is working in coordination with the two city corporations, Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA), Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), and Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC), to ease the traffic situation and bring back discipline on city roads, he added.
DMP commissioner urges the people to follow traffic rules.
This is the 5th time that Traffic Discipline Week is being observed after the Road Safety Movement was initiated following the deaths of two college students in the city on July 29 last.
This traffic week will continue till March 23.