The inauguration of metro services from Agargaon to Motijheel has opened up an entirely new avenue to transportation within the capital as the metro rail has reduced the travel time between these two locations to only 15 minutes, something that used to take hours in the past.
This has once again proven the utility of well-planned public transport, especially that of transport infrastructure that is city friendly like trains and subways.
Dhaka is no stranger to debilitating traffic that -- more often than not -- decreased the pace of the city to a crawl. It has been reported that distances that would take about 10 minutes to traverse in places like the United States would take upwards of an hour and a half in Dhaka. This causes various issues for people using the roads, and recent reports indicate that the local economy has lost millions due to the fallout of this problem.
Dhaka suffers from issues such as unplanned urbanization and a lack of traffic rules that contribute to our unbearable traffic, and aside from addressing these root causes, we also need to look at alternative transportation methods. Which is why we need to double down on systems such as the metro and subways, following in the footsteps of cities such as New York and London.
The administration needs to carefully assess the impact of the metro rail, to see what we can learn and what can be improved. We also need to look at the wider world to see what works and what doesn’t as we embrace a more robust public transport infrastructure.
An efficient and hassle free public transport is one of the best ways to signal development, it’s good to know that Bangladesh is on the right track on that front.
This has once again proven the utility of well-planned public transport, especially that of transport infrastructure that is city friendly like trains and subways.
Dhaka is no stranger to debilitating traffic that -- more often than not -- decreased the pace of the city to a crawl. It has been reported that distances that would take about 10 minutes to traverse in places like the United States would take upwards of an hour and a half in Dhaka. This causes various issues for people using the roads, and recent reports indicate that the local economy has lost millions due to the fallout of this problem.
Dhaka suffers from issues such as unplanned urbanization and a lack of traffic rules that contribute to our unbearable traffic, and aside from addressing these root causes, we also need to look at alternative transportation methods. Which is why we need to double down on systems such as the metro and subways, following in the footsteps of cities such as New York and London.
The administration needs to carefully assess the impact of the metro rail, to see what we can learn and what can be improved. We also need to look at the wider world to see what works and what doesn’t as we embrace a more robust public transport infrastructure.
An efficient and hassle free public transport is one of the best ways to signal development, it’s good to know that Bangladesh is on the right track on that front.