Chittagong Bureau :
Roads within the port city Chittagong have turned worst during the ongoing monsoon after the time ever before as most or f the roads have been damaged by incessant rainfall. According to sources, vehicles cannot run on the roads of Chittagong city as the condition of maximum roads has deteriorated seriously due to lack of renovation after the heavy rainfall in the current rainy season and the city dwellers are the worst sufferers of water logging .
Most of the roads and alleys in the port city have become unfit for traffic due to cracks and potholes, causing sufferings to the pedestrians, commuters as well as the drivers. A sufferer told this correspondent that he was coming from Raozan area by bus but the road condition from Fatehabad area to Muradpur is horrible and almost parts of the road are broken which unable to run vehicles freely. Sources said the road from Muradpur to Oxygen was cutted by CWASA authority for installing pipe line since long but yet to be repaired.
On the other hand, the road condition from Mudunaghat to Bahaddarhat sec tion of Kaptai Highway became the same conditions of road like Rangamati road due to CWASA pipeline installation in a snail pace .
Sources said the authority which is responsible for renovating the roads in the city is Chittagong City Corporation (CCC). Now, the CCC is trying to fill up the cracks and potholes by the bitumen with small stones. The Superintendent Engineer of CCC Engineer Rafiqul Islam said, “We are renovating the roads by “Ash Fault Plant” and using the bitumen with small stones to fill up the cracks and potholes of roads.”
City dwellers have said that the port city of Chittagong has now turned into a place of frequent water-logging in the rainy season following a heavy shower even in the moderate rainfall due to faulty drainage system. Almost all the low-lying areas of the city went under water if the city experiences torrential rainfall.
The rain water inundates the city streets by overflowing the drains because most of the drains were silted up heavily, causing disruption in normal discharge of rain water. As a result, vehicles are plying the roads with high risk.
Big ditches, damaging of carpets and lack of renovation works and continuous downpour in last week made the roads of the port very rough and risky. Kamrul Hasan, a city dweller, has said that he has to pay extra fare to the rickshaw-puller due to the unfit roads.
“Sometimes they refuse to go even after offering higher fare”, he added. Saima Akter, a student, said the small vehicles like cars or CNG baby taxies are quite unable to run on the dilapidated roads. She said the roads are repaired on some occasions but returned to their bad shape in few days, increasing further the troubles.
The conditions of the roads at Agrabad, Barik Building, Chittagong Port area, Patenga, Steel Mills, Katgor Bazar, Airport, Muradpur, Oxygen Intersection, Sholoshohor, Dewanhat, Olanker Intersection, Port Connecting Road, Bohoddarhat, College Road, Jamal Khan, Momin Road, Station Road, Kadamtali, Dhonialapara, Chawk Bazar, Sholok Bahar, Katalganj, Bakalia, New Market, SS Khaled Road, Mehdibag, or Nizam Road, Pahartali and Bayezid Bostami are beyond description.
Roads within the port city Chittagong have turned worst during the ongoing monsoon after the time ever before as most or f the roads have been damaged by incessant rainfall. According to sources, vehicles cannot run on the roads of Chittagong city as the condition of maximum roads has deteriorated seriously due to lack of renovation after the heavy rainfall in the current rainy season and the city dwellers are the worst sufferers of water logging .
Most of the roads and alleys in the port city have become unfit for traffic due to cracks and potholes, causing sufferings to the pedestrians, commuters as well as the drivers. A sufferer told this correspondent that he was coming from Raozan area by bus but the road condition from Fatehabad area to Muradpur is horrible and almost parts of the road are broken which unable to run vehicles freely. Sources said the road from Muradpur to Oxygen was cutted by CWASA authority for installing pipe line since long but yet to be repaired.
On the other hand, the road condition from Mudunaghat to Bahaddarhat sec tion of Kaptai Highway became the same conditions of road like Rangamati road due to CWASA pipeline installation in a snail pace .
Sources said the authority which is responsible for renovating the roads in the city is Chittagong City Corporation (CCC). Now, the CCC is trying to fill up the cracks and potholes by the bitumen with small stones. The Superintendent Engineer of CCC Engineer Rafiqul Islam said, “We are renovating the roads by “Ash Fault Plant” and using the bitumen with small stones to fill up the cracks and potholes of roads.”
City dwellers have said that the port city of Chittagong has now turned into a place of frequent water-logging in the rainy season following a heavy shower even in the moderate rainfall due to faulty drainage system. Almost all the low-lying areas of the city went under water if the city experiences torrential rainfall.
The rain water inundates the city streets by overflowing the drains because most of the drains were silted up heavily, causing disruption in normal discharge of rain water. As a result, vehicles are plying the roads with high risk.
Big ditches, damaging of carpets and lack of renovation works and continuous downpour in last week made the roads of the port very rough and risky. Kamrul Hasan, a city dweller, has said that he has to pay extra fare to the rickshaw-puller due to the unfit roads.
“Sometimes they refuse to go even after offering higher fare”, he added. Saima Akter, a student, said the small vehicles like cars or CNG baby taxies are quite unable to run on the dilapidated roads. She said the roads are repaired on some occasions but returned to their bad shape in few days, increasing further the troubles.
The conditions of the roads at Agrabad, Barik Building, Chittagong Port area, Patenga, Steel Mills, Katgor Bazar, Airport, Muradpur, Oxygen Intersection, Sholoshohor, Dewanhat, Olanker Intersection, Port Connecting Road, Bohoddarhat, College Road, Jamal Khan, Momin Road, Station Road, Kadamtali, Dhonialapara, Chawk Bazar, Sholok Bahar, Katalganj, Bakalia, New Market, SS Khaled Road, Mehdibag, or Nizam Road, Pahartali and Bayezid Bostami are beyond description.
