Travelling of female and children by bus :
Movement of common people in capital Dhaka has become very difficult owing to lack of affordable, comfortable and easy means of transport. A few thousand affluent people having their own or employers provided motor vehicles can move to their desired destinations confronting traffic jam. But the rest 10 million commuters are helpless. They do not have financial capability to purchase motor vehicles nor get transport facility from their employers. They have to depend on very limited available public transport. A lot of financial and administrative restrictions have been imposed for import and registration of low cost CNG auto-rickshaws. The large and mini public buses ply on city streets are inadequate comparing to the huge number of commuters.
Moreover, the routes of available buses do not cover most of the areas of the city. It is common seen in Dhaka city that the male passengers indeed exert physical presser to get in to a bus when a bus stops at a stoppage. In most of the times female and children passengers can not avail the bus competing with male counter parts. They have to wait hours together at bus stoppages to have a bus with fewer passengers. In recent time female and children commuters have been increased many folds.
Usually six to eight seats are kept reserved for female passenger theoretically; in practice male passengers mostly occupy those seats. The bus conductors discourage the female and children passengers to get in to the bus. All the two setter seats at left column of buss needed to keep reserve for female and children commuters. Bus conductors should encourage them to avail the bus service. As female and children passenger have increased now-a-days, they will be benefited by getting affordable bus service to move from place to place in the capital Dhaka.
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority should made it mandatory to keep all the left column two setter seats reserved for female and children commuters in public buses those ply in Dhaka city.
Movement of common people in capital Dhaka has become very difficult owing to lack of affordable, comfortable and easy means of transport. A few thousand affluent people having their own or employers provided motor vehicles can move to their desired destinations confronting traffic jam. But the rest 10 million commuters are helpless. They do not have financial capability to purchase motor vehicles nor get transport facility from their employers. They have to depend on very limited available public transport. A lot of financial and administrative restrictions have been imposed for import and registration of low cost CNG auto-rickshaws. The large and mini public buses ply on city streets are inadequate comparing to the huge number of commuters.
Moreover, the routes of available buses do not cover most of the areas of the city. It is common seen in Dhaka city that the male passengers indeed exert physical presser to get in to a bus when a bus stops at a stoppage. In most of the times female and children passengers can not avail the bus competing with male counter parts. They have to wait hours together at bus stoppages to have a bus with fewer passengers. In recent time female and children commuters have been increased many folds.
Usually six to eight seats are kept reserved for female passenger theoretically; in practice male passengers mostly occupy those seats. The bus conductors discourage the female and children passengers to get in to the bus. All the two setter seats at left column of buss needed to keep reserve for female and children commuters. Bus conductors should encourage them to avail the bus service. As female and children passenger have increased now-a-days, they will be benefited by getting affordable bus service to move from place to place in the capital Dhaka.
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority should made it mandatory to keep all the left column two setter seats reserved for female and children commuters in public buses those ply in Dhaka city.
Md Ashraf Hossain
Dhaka
