Bangladesh Road safety

City corporations shouldn’t be endangering lives

DSCC garbage truck incident shows how negligence is costing lives

More buses cannot guarantee safer, better service

Holistic approach needed to improve public transport system

Structural killings, not road ‘accidents’

Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.

Some relief for road crash victims

Compensation package for affected families long overdue

A suspicious BRTA diktat

BRTA must work collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure road safety

A sheer waste of public money

Why were the trauma centres built if they were to be left unused?

‘Improving road safety can accelerate economic growth’

The World Bank and the United Nations will continue working together with the Government of Bangladesh to improve road safety, Vice President for South Asia of the global financier, Hartwig Schafer says.

Checking Road Accidents: Long wait for effective steps

Formed in February with former shipping minister Shajahan Khan at its helm, a committee two months later made a 111-point recommendation on how to reduce road crashes and bring discipline in the transport sector.

1 Year of Road Safety Demo: 22 students still tangled up in cases

Students who took to the streets last year for safer roads could not achieve what they had set out to do, but now many of them have to appear before courts almost every month as the police accused them of vandalism.

April 28, 2024
April 28, 2024

City corporations shouldn’t be endangering lives

DSCC garbage truck incident shows how negligence is costing lives

February 6, 2024
February 6, 2024

More buses cannot guarantee safer, better service

Holistic approach needed to improve public transport system

January 17, 2024
January 17, 2024

Structural killings, not road ‘accidents’

Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.

August 22, 2023
August 22, 2023

Some relief for road crash victims

Compensation package for affected families long overdue

April 14, 2023
April 14, 2023

A suspicious BRTA diktat

BRTA must work collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure road safety

April 1, 2023
April 1, 2023

A sheer waste of public money

Why were the trauma centres built if they were to be left unused?

January 28, 2020
January 28, 2020

‘Improving road safety can accelerate economic growth’

The World Bank and the United Nations will continue working together with the Government of Bangladesh to improve road safety, Vice President for South Asia of the global financier, Hartwig Schafer says.

November 25, 2019
November 25, 2019

Checking Road Accidents: Long wait for effective steps

Formed in February with former shipping minister Shajahan Khan at its helm, a committee two months later made a 111-point recommendation on how to reduce road crashes and bring discipline in the transport sector.

July 30, 2019
July 30, 2019

1 Year of Road Safety Demo: 22 students still tangled up in cases

Students who took to the streets last year for safer roads could not achieve what they had set out to do, but now many of them have to appear before courts almost every month as the police accused them of vandalism.

May 4, 2019
May 4, 2019

Demand for reviewing road accident compensation

A joint meeting of transport owners and workers was held in the city’s Mohanagar Natya Mancha on May 2 where transport leaders stated that they would have to rethink their decision to remain in the business in light of recent orders by the High Court to transport companies to pay financial damages...