Ensuring Road Safety: Lowest outcome from highest committees
The government has three high-powered committees to ensure roads are safe. These committees meet infrequently, and when they meet, they make almost identical decisions. And those decisions rarely come to fruition.
13h ago
Road Safety: Maladies every step of the way
The entire road transport sector has long been plagued by multifaceted problems, which are worsening every day amid sheer apathy from the authorities responsible for ensuring road safety.
1d ago
Old, unfit vehicles running amok
The bus involved in yesterday’s accident that left 14 dead in Faridpur would not have been on the road had the government not caved in to transport associations’ demand for allowing over 20 years old buses on roads.
2d ago
Faridpur bus-pickup collision: The law violations that led to 13 deaths
Thirteen people died in Faridpur this morning in a head-on collision that would not have happened if operators of the vehicles involved had followed existing laws and rules
2d ago
Eid rush: Padma Bridge sees 16.25pc increase in traffic this year
Smaller rise in traffic through Bangabandhu Bridge
6d ago
A family wiped out on Eid day
All three family members, along with two others, died after being struck by the broken mooring line of a passenger launch.
1w ago
Road crashes, fatalities rise steeply from January
The numbers of road accidents and deaths saw a sharp rise in the first three months of this year compared to the corresponding period last year. Experts blamed the spike on the authorities’ failure to implement specific measures and a lack of commitment to ensure road safety.
1w ago
April 19, 2024
Ensuring Road Safety: Lowest outcome from highest committees
The government has three high-powered committees to ensure roads are safe. These committees meet infrequently, and when they meet, they make almost identical decisions. And those decisions rarely come to fruition.
April 18, 2024
Road Safety: Maladies every step of the way
The entire road transport sector has long been plagued by multifaceted problems, which are worsening every day amid sheer apathy from the authorities responsible for ensuring road safety.
April 17, 2024
Old, unfit vehicles running amok
The bus involved in yesterday’s accident that left 14 dead in Faridpur would not have been on the road had the government not caved in to transport associations’ demand for allowing over 20 years old buses on roads.
April 16, 2024
Faridpur bus-pickup collision: The law violations that led to 13 deaths
Thirteen people died in Faridpur this morning in a head-on collision that would not have happened if operators of the vehicles involved had followed existing laws and rules
April 12, 2024
Eid rush: Padma Bridge sees 16.25pc increase in traffic this year
Smaller rise in traffic through Bangabandhu Bridge
April 11, 2024
A family wiped out on Eid day
All three family members, along with two others, died after being struck by the broken mooring line of a passenger launch.
April 11, 2024
Snapped mooring line kills 5 at Sadarghat; 5 held
The victims include three of a family
April 8, 2024
Road crashes, fatalities rise steeply from January
The numbers of road accidents and deaths saw a sharp rise in the first three months of this year compared to the corresponding period last year. Experts blamed the spike on the authorities’ failure to implement specific measures and a lack of commitment to ensure road safety.
April 7, 2024
Elenga-Rangpur Four-Lane Conversion: More time, more money required
The government in September 2016 approved a project to turn a 190km two-lane road from Elenga to Rangpur into a four-lane highway with the view to boosting connectivity between the capital and the northern region.
April 6, 2024
Safety audit ignored in road projects
The Roads and Highways Department is implementing most of its projects to turn two-lane highways into four-lane ones without safety audits, which, according to experts, is a major compromise on road safety.
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