Bangladesh Road safety

Time to form a commission to ensure road safety

It is time to form a commission to drive reforms in transport sector

Ensuring pedestrian safety through co-design and behaviour change models

While road authorities and professionals often attribute pedestrian injuries and fatalities to the reckless actions of pedestrians and drivers, the users themselves frequently point to inadequate and unsafe facilities.

National Road Safety Day / We need decent working hours to give better service

Working for long hours without rest and sleep can, of course, increase the risk of accidents.

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?

November 12, 2024
November 12, 2024

Time to form a commission to ensure road safety

It is time to form a commission to drive reforms in transport sector

November 4, 2024
November 4, 2024

Ensuring pedestrian safety through co-design and behaviour change models

While road authorities and professionals often attribute pedestrian injuries and fatalities to the reckless actions of pedestrians and drivers, the users themselves frequently point to inadequate and unsafe facilities.

October 22, 2024
October 22, 2024

We need decent working hours to give better service

Working for long hours without rest and sleep can, of course, increase the risk of accidents.

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.