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Instant Reaction / Barring unfit vehicles an unimplementable order
The Police Headquarters yesterday instructed all its field level units not to allow any vehicles without fitness clearance to operate on the roads. But is it implementable?
Don’t allow unfit vehicles on roads
Amid rising road crashes, the Police Headquarters has instructed all its field-level units not to allow any vehicles without fitness clearances to operate.
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.
When will sanity return to our roads?
What we need is strict implementation of our existing regulations.
Column by Mahfuz Anam: Not road accidents, but ‘murder’ by neglect
A death is an accident only when it occurs in spite of all logical, scientific and experience-based steps taken to prevent it.
Highway accident or murder?
A crash that exposes all the problems with our road transport system
Why are there still so many unfit vehicles?
The number of vehicles with fitness clearance has dropped to a record low
Form taskforce in districts to stop unfit vehicles, HC asks govt
The government has been directed by the High Court to form separate taskforce in all districts to monitor and stop unregistered and unfit vehicles.
Get fitness clearance or face action
The High Court yesterday directed the owners of the vehicles without valid fitness documents to collect their fitness certificates in two months, starting from August 1.
Take unfit vehicles off the roads
Damning reports along with horrendous pictures about the state of our transport sector were published in all our major national dailies yesterday.
Unfit vehicles won’t be allowed: Police chief
Any unfit vehicle will not be allowed to run on the streets of Bangladesh ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwar says.
Investment in new transports
When the roads and highways are strewn with rundown and ramshackle vehicles, the syndicates are proving to be serious impediments to the introduction of new and comfortable vehicles in the private sector.
Fines and jail term are ad hoc measures
The Jatiya Sangsad committee on home affairs formed a sub-committee to find solutions to the capital's appalling traffic situation.
Seeing unfit vehicles off the street
We wholeheartedly welcome the High Court's directive to stop unfit motor vehicles from plying on the roads. The HC's suo moto rule to freeze around 19 lakh fake driving licences is also a laudatory move.
