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Trucks Play Hell * Bangladesh - With old town traffic
Dhaka,Bangladesh -The Daily Star, by Rizanuzzaman Laskar -14 July 2008: -- A citywide ban on the daytime movement of heavy transportation vehicles goes unheeded as old town streets adjacent to some of the busiest exit points of the city still experience their cursed presence... The narrow streets of Farashganj, Loharpul or Faridabad barely have any traffic officials to monitor the traffic movement. Large pickups and covered vans ramble along the jam-packed lanes of Banglabazar, Lalkuthi or Shyambazar making the area a hellhole for pedestrians... During a visit to Banglabazar, this correspondent found a 5-ton lorry parked near the AKN Jubilee School. Hundreds of tattered rickshaws, school vans haphazardly inched towards the small gap beside the yellow, hulking mass of metal for a passage... The rickshaw pullers and their passengers caught in the drizzles frantically shouted only to fall on the deaf ears of the lorry driver who was fast asleep on the driving seat... The groggy-eyed driver told this correspondent that he would move his lorry only when the traffic on the road ahead dissolves... According to the sources at the traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), any truck or lorry, regardless of being medium-duty or heavy-duty are barred from using city streets from 8:00am to 8:00pm... (Photo: STAR - A truck occupies more than half of a narrow lane at Bangshal)Labels: transport troubles
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