Staff Reporter :
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that the government has decided to ban the plying of CNG-run auto-rickshaws on highways, in order to reduce road accident.
The decision was taken on Wednesday in a review meeting of monitoring cell of road transport and highways division.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister
Obaidul Quader chaired the meeting. The minister advised the official for taking pre-action to avoid cattle markets during Eid-ul-Azha beside the highways.
“We have noticed free movement of CNG-run auto-rickshaws on the highways. These auto-rickshaws are causing accidents. This will be stopped,” Quader told a press briefing at his ministry.
He said, a 22-km elevated expressway will be constructed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Ashulia Baipail to reduce traffic jam. The work will begin next year, he added.
Obaidul said, those engineers who performed their duties properly during the recent Eid to make the holidaymakers’ journeys hassle-free would be rewarded, while action would be taken against those who failed.
Secretary of the ministry MAN Siddique, Chief Enegineer of Road and Highway. Division Md. Firoz Iqbal, BRTA Chairman Nazrul Islam, BRTC Chairman Md Mizanur Rahman and Dhaka Road Transport Co-Ordination Authority (BTA) chairman Kaikobath Hossain, among others, were also present in the meeting.
The committee was deputed to ensure smooth journey of holidaymakers during Eid.
There is already an existing highway ban on shallow-engine driven easy bikes, Nosimon, Korimon, Bhatbhai and similar vehicles, but only on the papers.
To check road accidents and loss of lives, the government took repeated decisions over the past seven years to keep these vehicles from the highways but to no purpose.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that the government has decided to ban the plying of CNG-run auto-rickshaws on highways, in order to reduce road accident.
The decision was taken on Wednesday in a review meeting of monitoring cell of road transport and highways division.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister
Obaidul Quader chaired the meeting. The minister advised the official for taking pre-action to avoid cattle markets during Eid-ul-Azha beside the highways.
“We have noticed free movement of CNG-run auto-rickshaws on the highways. These auto-rickshaws are causing accidents. This will be stopped,” Quader told a press briefing at his ministry.
He said, a 22-km elevated expressway will be constructed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Ashulia Baipail to reduce traffic jam. The work will begin next year, he added.
Obaidul said, those engineers who performed their duties properly during the recent Eid to make the holidaymakers’ journeys hassle-free would be rewarded, while action would be taken against those who failed.
Secretary of the ministry MAN Siddique, Chief Enegineer of Road and Highway. Division Md. Firoz Iqbal, BRTA Chairman Nazrul Islam, BRTC Chairman Md Mizanur Rahman and Dhaka Road Transport Co-Ordination Authority (BTA) chairman Kaikobath Hossain, among others, were also present in the meeting.
The committee was deputed to ensure smooth journey of holidaymakers during Eid.
There is already an existing highway ban on shallow-engine driven easy bikes, Nosimon, Korimon, Bhatbhai and similar vehicles, but only on the papers.
To check road accidents and loss of lives, the government took repeated decisions over the past seven years to keep these vehicles from the highways but to no purpose.
