Adviser angry over his name on inauguration plaque
Adviser for road transport and bridges ministry Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Sunday became irate at an opening ceremony when he noticed his name on the inauguration plaque...
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Effective enforcement is all for road safety, not law after law
THE government鈥檚 going ahead with a new law on road safety whilst the Road Transport Act 2018 is in force has created the scope for doubt, especially regarding its enforcement. The Road Transport Act 2018, made on September 19 that year, after a countrywide road safety movement in July 2018 was set into force on November 1, 2019. But the road transport minister...
SMART DRIVING LICENCE:聽7.5 lakh cards not printed
Around 7.5 lakh smart driving licence cards are now pending to be printed causing sufferings to the people.
BRTC double-decker crashes into Farmgate pillar
A Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation double-decker bus rammed into a pillar of the Elevated Expressway at Farmgate in Dhaka city on Tuesday, causing a brief traffic disruption on the busy road...
No scope for legal leniency if govt wants to stop road accidents
ROAD safety has continuously been put at bay as the number of fatal accidents has only increased for seven years since the road safety movement in 2018 after a bus killed two college students in Dhaka on July 29 that year. The government made the Road Transport Act 2018 in September that year. Police data show that 2,635 died in road accidents...
Transport owners to stage 24-hr strike in Chattogram on July 20聽
The Greater Chattogram Public and Goods Transport Owners Federation has announced a 24-hour suspension of all services in Chattogram and five surrounding districts for July 20, pressing for amendment to the Road Transport Act 2018, among other demands...
CNG drivers block Banani road, causing congestion
A group of CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers on Sunday blocked the main road in front of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority office at Banani in Dhaka, crippling traffic for about six hours on the Uttara鈥揗ohakhali road and causing huge sufferings to the people...
National managers should break inertia to make roads safe
THE road transport system continues to be plagued with an entrenched culture of lawlessness, weak regulation and consequent accidents. The latest Road Safety Foundation report says that 696 died and 1,867 became injured in 689 traffic accidents in June alone. This comes down to an average of 23 death a day. This also marks a 22.55 per cent increase in fatalities from...
Road transport sector should be on govt鈥檚 reform agenda
PUBLIC transport remains unsafe and the government has so far kept the sector off its reform platter. The Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh reports that at least 614 people died and 1,196 became injured in 597 road accidents in May. April was equally deadly, with the death of at least 583 people and injuries to 1,202 in 567 accidents. The highest 33.5 per cent of...
Tk聽46,308cr cut from 33 projects
The interim government has reduced about Tk聽46,308 crore in costs in 33 projects under the ministries of road transport and bridges, railways and power, energy and mineral resources...
Licences on sale, footpaths for rent
IF DANTE had been born in Dhaka, I suspect he wouldn鈥檛 have written about nine circles of hell 鈥� he would have simply described a morning commute involving the BRTA and a short stroll along a Bangladeshi footpath. Because truly, what else but infernal suffering could explain a place where getting a driving licence requires divine intervention, a briefcase full of...
BRTA suspends registration of bus over loss of roof in accident
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has suspended the registration of the rashly-driven bus that lost its roof amid the driver鈥檚 desperate bid to escape after an accident...
Worrying govt failure to keep unfit vehicles off road
MORE than 600,000 registered motor vehicles still running on the road with their fitness certificates not having been updated after they have had repeated bans on their movement is a cause for concern. The Road Transport Authority figures until mid-March show that the number of motor vehicles registered with the agency is 6.296 million whilst 9.7 per cent of them have...
Moinuddin joins as special assistant
Sheikh Moinuddin on Sunday joined as special assistant to interim government鈥檚 chief adviser with the status of state minister and executive authority over the ministry of road transport and bridges...
132 killed, 208 injured in Eid road crashes: BRTA
At least 132 people were killed and 208 injured in 110 road crashes across the country during the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation, according to data published by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
Joint drive against unfit vehicles in city
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Dhaka Metropolitan Police jointly conducted a drive against unfit vehicles in the city on Friday.
EID JOURNEY: Advance train, bus tickets from March 14
Bangladesh Railway and the private bus operators are going to start selling advance train and bus tickets from March 14 ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr...
Govt should look into BRTC corruption, misgovernance
ALMOST a fourth of the Road Transport Corporation buses falling beyond economic repairs mainly because of poor maintenance in 15 years is worrying. The fleet of the agency has 1,512 buses. But, 1,102 buses run as 343 of them have been categorised beyond repairs, making any repairs financially not viable, and 64 are under heavy repairs. The agency bought 1,558 buses...
Bangabandhu Bridge, tunnel renamed聽
The road transport and bridges ministry on Wednesday changed the name of the Bangabandhu Bridge over the River Jamuna and the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under the River Karnaphuli...
4 highways, 8 bridges renamed
The road transport and bridges ministry on Monday changed names of four highways and eight bridges across the country, including the name of the expressway on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga route...
Uber reports Tk 5,500cr economic activity in 2024
Uber, a ridesharing platform in Bangladesh, has reported Tk 5,500 crore economic activity in 2024 in the country...
Cancellation of an enforcement order is not the answer
THE Bangladesh Road Transport Authority鈥檚 hasty decision to cancel its order on enforcing a meter-based fare for CNG-run auto rickshaws, as stipulated in the Road Transport Act 2018, is yet another case of poor governance that has been plaguing the public transport sector. On February 10, the BRTA sent a letter to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, reminding them to file...
BRTC to build buses from March
State-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation is going to start building single-decker buses from March with the aim of reducing the import of buses.
DTCA should learn from past mistakes
THE government plan on a bus route franchise to streamline public transports in Dhaka could clash with a similar programme that the transport owners鈥� association has taken up. This is worrying. The road transport adviser in December 2024 announced that the government would introduce company-based bus operation on nine routes in Dhaka on February...
Traffic sergeants to carry arms against muggers: DMP chief
Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Sajjad Ali announced plans to arm traffic sergeants with small arms to combat rising incidents of mugging in the capital...
BRTA offices to remain聽open on Saturdays
In a move aimed at enhancing customer service, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has announced that its offices will remain open on Saturdays, the weekly holiday in the country.
Govt to take action against BRTA if services not improved within one month
The government will take action against officials of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority from top to bottom if it does not improve its services within the next one month...
BRTC to launch AC bus service in BRT corridor today
The government is set to introduce the much-sought AC bus service under the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation in the Bus Rapid Transit corridor on Sunday...
Tools against corruption should not be rhetorical
PASSPORT, road transport administration, law enforcement and judicial services have come up to be the top four corrupt services sectors from 2017 to 2023, as Transparency International Bangladesh surveys for 2023, 2021 and 2017, the latest three of the surveys that the corruption watchdog have published since 1997, show. In the 2021 and 2017 surveys, the most corrupt service sectors were the same and in the...
Holistic approach needed to discipline city road regime
ENFORCEMENT failure lurks as the authorities meant to keep road regime disciplined have failed to keep unfit and unauthorised vehicles off the road. Unfit vehicles such as buses, trucks, pickups and privately owned cars continue to create chaos on the road in a few ways. Whilst unfit vehicles keep emitting black smoke, adding to the air pollution which often...