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Inconsistent transport fare: What are regulatory agencies doing?

The impact of rising fuel prices like diesel is widespread. The biggest shock was in public transport and freight fares. The increase in fuel prices is taken as an opportunity by transport owners and ...

Transport fare is likely to increase following the hike in fuel oil price

Meeting on adjustment of transport fare today

A meeting would be held to adjust transport fares following the price hike of fuel oil.

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Road accidents Police can't evade responsibility for death of scientists, engineer

We are unwilling to term the Savar incident as a mere road accident. This is an accident caused by negligence or a glaring example of systemic murder

Padma Bridge from the Jajira end

Bus fare increased for 13 routes considering Padma Bridge toll

Aiming to provide smooth service on Padma Multipurpose Bridge, the fare has been revised for 40 bus-seats (excluding driver) instead of 51 bus-seats by adjusting the prescribed toll

A man tries to comfort her daughter after his wife was killed in a road accident in Dhaka’s Mirpur on 29 March 2022 while taking her two children to school.

Road accidents: 107 students lose their lives in May

Students account for the highest number of the victims losing their lives in road crashes across the country throughout May with 107 students being killed during this period, according to the Road ...

Md Hadiuzzaman

Interview: Md Hadiuzzaman 'Motorbikes cannot be alternative to public transport'

Motorbikes cannot be used commercially for long distance trips. The highway police had the scope to take action against such commercial riders, but they failed to do so, says Md Hadiuzzaman, speaking ...

Pushing and shoving to board a bus has become an everyday affair in this city of chaotic traffic. Farmgate, 4:30pm, Monday.

Traffic disorder brings Dhaka city to a halt

More attention is being paid to the mega projects rather than traffic management. The speed of traffic in the capital city has decreased to just 4.8km per hour

Editorial

Maisha the latest road victim: When will the authorities wake up?

A road accident claimed the life of Maisha Momotaj, a student who took part in a movement with her classmates demanding safer roads after two college students were killed in a road accident at ...

Editorial

Driver's license: Why BRTA will not have its own capacity?

About 4.4 million licenses are stuck due to arbitrariness of contractors and inefficiency of the BRTA

Police install check post in front of Parbat cinema hall in Gabtoli bus stand area of Dhaka to verify driving licences of the drivers on 4 August

Road safety at stake 4.4 million driving licences pending at BRTA

Licence related activities have been stalled for the past three years at BRTA

An office-going woman runs to board a running bus at the zero point of Dhaka's Gulistan area

Gender divide in mobility: Working, walking and worrying in Dhaka city

A city is experienced quite differently by men and women of different ages, professions and social class. Equipped with all sorts of modern amenities, it would be expected that a city could offer ...

Relatives break down in tears at the death of Akash Iqbal and Maya Hazarika, the couple who died in a motorbike accident on Airport Road in Dhaka on 18 January 2021

Many families lose everything to road accidents

The victims of road accidents in Bangladesh are mostly earning people. This has an impact on the economy with the country incurring losses of Tk 1,090 billion in the last three years.

Editorial

Disorder on the roads How do vehicles run without licences?

The gruesome accident in which five brothers, returning from Chakariya in Cox's Bazar after their father's funeral rites, were killed by a recklessly speeding pickup, once again showed the extreme ...

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Transport sector How much money to be wasted in the name of digitalisation

Failure to provide the facilities BRTA realising money from the consumers is a form of injustice

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Public transport restrictions should not make passengers suffer

The transport owners have questioned the justification of keeping public transport running at half passenger capacity while everything else remains open as normal. But what they didn't mention is ...

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