Reza Mahmud :
The City Corporations constructed speed breakers on the city roads in order to contain the speed of the motorised vehicles to avoid loss of life and property.
By this time a large number of them have faded away for lack of maintenance. But little initiative was taken to repair them. As a result it becomes difficult on the part of the drivers to identify the speed breakers, increasing risk of accidents.
“I am a biker. I drive my motorcycle on almost every street in the city on account of my everyday work. While doing it, I face unmarked speed breakers in every corner of the city. As such, it is posing huge risk of accidents. That is why bikes and other vehicles are falling in accidents resulting in the casualties frequently, but it has been ignored by the authority,” said Ahmed Jilani a resident of Doyagonj in old Dhaka.
He said that he luckily escaped accident several times at Mir Hazirbagh. “There are about 10 unmarked speed breakers on the road from Rajdhani Super Market at Tikatuli to Jurain level crossing,” he said.
Jilani described the dilapidated conditions of the streets at many places. In this situation, all speed breakers are unmarked in the Natun Sarak have added more risks of accidents.
