Gulam Rabbani :
Illegal car parking on two sides of roads has become a normal practice in the city. As there is no planned parking system, scattered parking creates severe traffic jam at day time and after nightfall.
An urban planner said there was no discipline in car parking in Dhaka city and there is no policy about it.
The city residents alleged that illegal parking on the city streets, especially in front of shopping malls across the capital, is on rise. It is blocking almost half of the city streets. This is causing intolerable traffic congestion in those areas. As a result, city residents are losing working hours to suffer a lot.
As some City Corporation officials, police and political beneficiaries are involved with this parking, it is not going to stop, unless car parking system is developed.
During a recent visit it was found that vehicles including private car, auto-rickshaws, micro-buses and motorcycles are parked at busy intersections like Science Laboratory, New Market, Nilkhet, Mirpur 10, Farmgate and Karwanbazar with hawkers occupying footpaths, leaving almost no space for pedestrians.
Inter-district and city buses have their stoppages and ticket counters at places and park many of their vehicles on the streets. Several hundred vehicles were seen parked on both sides of the road in the Dilkusha Commercial Area and Shapla Chattar to Ittefaq intersection. The area stretching from Dainik Bangla to Shapla Chattar offered the same view.
But vehicles can only be parked on designated sites on the roads, marked by the authorities.
Though a parking system was started in Sadharon Bima Tower of Dilkusha of the city in 2006, car is not being parked there. But thousands of cars are parked all day long on two sides of the busy roads at Motijheel and
Dilkusha. Subscription is taken regularly from them.
The 37 storied City Centre of Motijheel has the capacity of parking about 500 cars. But car drivers are not going there. As they get chance to park on the road, they are avoiding parking in a building. A large number of vehicles were seen parked outside the City Centre recently.
Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon said, ‘Car users, especially private car users, are not abiding by the law. They are parking haphazardly. We are trying to give sufficient parking facilities.’
Urban and Regional Analyst Professor Dr. Sarwar Jahan said, there is no policy in our country about car parking. So we have to have a policy at first. Then measures should be taken according to the policy.
Illegal car parking on two sides of roads has become a normal practice in the city. As there is no planned parking system, scattered parking creates severe traffic jam at day time and after nightfall.
An urban planner said there was no discipline in car parking in Dhaka city and there is no policy about it.
The city residents alleged that illegal parking on the city streets, especially in front of shopping malls across the capital, is on rise. It is blocking almost half of the city streets. This is causing intolerable traffic congestion in those areas. As a result, city residents are losing working hours to suffer a lot.
As some City Corporation officials, police and political beneficiaries are involved with this parking, it is not going to stop, unless car parking system is developed.
During a recent visit it was found that vehicles including private car, auto-rickshaws, micro-buses and motorcycles are parked at busy intersections like Science Laboratory, New Market, Nilkhet, Mirpur 10, Farmgate and Karwanbazar with hawkers occupying footpaths, leaving almost no space for pedestrians.
Inter-district and city buses have their stoppages and ticket counters at places and park many of their vehicles on the streets. Several hundred vehicles were seen parked on both sides of the road in the Dilkusha Commercial Area and Shapla Chattar to Ittefaq intersection. The area stretching from Dainik Bangla to Shapla Chattar offered the same view.
But vehicles can only be parked on designated sites on the roads, marked by the authorities.
Though a parking system was started in Sadharon Bima Tower of Dilkusha of the city in 2006, car is not being parked there. But thousands of cars are parked all day long on two sides of the busy roads at Motijheel and
Dilkusha. Subscription is taken regularly from them.
The 37 storied City Centre of Motijheel has the capacity of parking about 500 cars. But car drivers are not going there. As they get chance to park on the road, they are avoiding parking in a building. A large number of vehicles were seen parked outside the City Centre recently.
Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon said, ‘Car users, especially private car users, are not abiding by the law. They are parking haphazardly. We are trying to give sufficient parking facilities.’
Urban and Regional Analyst Professor Dr. Sarwar Jahan said, there is no policy in our country about car parking. So we have to have a policy at first. Then measures should be taken according to the policy.
