Battery-run easybike drivers and owners on Sunday put up barricades on different roads in several upazilas of Lalmonirhat for two hours demanding withdrawal of the ban on easybike movement on highway.
The Easybike Drivers and Owners Association led the road blockade programme.
They blockaded Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway at Aditmari upazila and Kaliganj upazila.
They also put up barricades on Lalmonirhat- Rangpur and the Lalmonirhat- Kurigram roads under Lalmonirhat sadar upazila, police said.
Easybike drivers withdrew the barricade at 2pm as police assured them that they would not obstruct the movement of easybikes on the highway, said the leaders of district Easybike Malik Chalok Kalyan Samity.
However, the Assistant Police Super in Lalmonirhat Mahfuzul Islam said battery-run easybike owners and drivers should have held a dialogue with the district administration and motor owner’s association to solve the problem.
Mazmul Haque, president of District Easy-bike Malik Chalok Kalyan Samity, said they would barricade roads if any easybike is seized on the highway.
“We are ready to hold dialogue to solve the problem if the administration calls us,” he said adding that easybike introduced an easy communication for short distance travellers and provided job to thousands of educated unemployed people in the district.
The district administration imposed a ban on the movement of easybike on the highway in the interest of district Motor Owners Association on September 16. Since then easybike movement on the highway had remained off the streets.
The easybikes resumed plying the streets after the assurance of the administration.
