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Only radical transport sector reform can make roads safe

AS BANGLADESH observes National Road Safety Day 2025, the grim reality on its roads exposes the hollowness of official slogans and failures of successive governments to make meaningful changes. Despite repeated promises and millions of takas spent on awareness campaigns, roads remain death traps — chaotic, corrupt and criminally neglected. Over the past...

Road transport sector should be on govt’s 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...