Traffic Congestion
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This document discusses the causes of traffic congestion in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. It identifies several key factors contributing to congestion, including a rising population and vehicle growth rate without sufficient expansion of roads. Dhaka has only 7% of its total area dedicated to roads, compared to the recommended 25%. Other causes include inadequate traffic enforcement, dysfunctional traffic lights, unplanned road design, centralized development drawing people into the city, and illegal parking reducing effective road space. Addressing these underlying issues through improved planning, infrastructure expansion, and enforcement of traffic rules could help remedy the severe congestion that plagues Dhaka.
Traffic Congestion
- 2. Contents • Definition of Traffic Congestion • Affected Cities by traffic congestion • Condition of Dhaka City • Causes of Congestion and explanation • Remedies against traffic congestion
- 4. A traffic congestion is a long line of vehicles that cannot move or move slowly because of there being too much traffic or some other reasons on the road.
- 5. The Cities which are affected by Traffic Congestion. 1) Melbourne, Sydney (Australia) 2) Dhaka (Bangladesh) 3) Sao Paolo (Brazil) 4) Toronto (Canada) 5) Hebei (China) 6) Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai (India) 7) Auckland (New Zealand) 8) Istanbul (Turkey) 9) London (U.K.) 10) Texas (U.S.A)
- 6. How about Dhaka City ……?? • Although a modern city should have 25 per cent of its total area devoted to road use, Dhaka has only 7 per cent. Traffic jams have become intolerable in Dhaka.
- 7. Causes of Congestion in Dhaka City 1) Increasing Number of Traffic In Bangladesh, population and traffic growth rate is approximately 1.5 to 7 percent respectively. As per BRTA (Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, 2014) source at present the total number of approved vehicle in Dhaka city is 785352. Among these, Bus -20534, Auto rickshaw (Taxi)-7949, Tempo-1664, Motorcycle-306638, Jeep-23671, Car-192623, Pickup-38243, Tank lorry-1204, Tractor trailer-18612, Truck-37883 Micro-54804. Source: BRTA
- 9. 2) Inadequacy of traffic police Traffic police in Dhaka is inadequate in number compared to the traffic in Bangladesh. All the cross roads need at least four traffic police at a time whereas in Dhaka it is seen that the number is not sufficient all the time.
- 10. 3) Less roads compared to traffic Dhaka city has obviously less roads than it needs. The traffic is being increased day by day but the roads are not. Dhaka city has only 7% of its total area which is not sufficient. 4) Dysfunction of Traffic Signals The given traffic lights and other signals don’t work properly whereas these lights are the main component of traffic control device. It is found by a study that 70% of the roads of dhaka city has automatic functioned traffic lights but most of them don’t work according to need.
- 11. 5) Manual Control of road junctions Rather than automatic control, the junctions or crossings of roads are being controlled manually by traffic police. Even though traffic police is usually present at every nodes or intersections, they do not do their duties properly. Traffic rules are also very flexible. One can easily avoid the fine by giving bribe to the police.
- 12. 6) More use of cars 2 cars can take the place of 1 bus and 1 bus can hold at least 40 people but 2 cars hold only 4-5 persons in average by a study. According to BRTA, the number of buses is 20534 whereas the number of Cars is 192623. Source: The Daily Prothom Alo Source: BRTA 7)Unplanned Road design Roads are not designed and constructed through proper planning and engineering survey. Many roads are wide enough in respect of its use but cannot use it properly due to proper planning and lack of coordination of engineering survey. 8) Less Educated Drivers In our country the drivers are not that much educated in general. That’s why they don’t understand the signals well which makes them to break the law and congestion happens.
- 13. 10) Less use of flyovers or interchanges Though there are some flyovers and interchanges in the city but due to some excessive toll, drivers are not encouraged to use these. As a result congestion occurs at the bottom. Example: Jatrabaari Flyover 11) Centralization in one city Dhaka is the center of all works of Bangladesh. All the works are done from here. That’s why people are coming more and more in Dhaka. Density of population is creasing, so is the congestions
- 14. 12) Illegal and Roadside parking of vehicles Illegal and Roadside parking is one of the causes of traffic congestion. It ultimately narrow down the effective road width of the roads to a great extent. These on-streets parking system cause traffic congestion in that particular road.
- 17. 13) Educational institutions inside the city There are a lots of educational institutions inside the busy areas of this city. It causes a lots of people to travel frequently inside the city and increases the congestions. 14) Street shops and hawkers Street vendors, Hawkers and street front shop owners occupy above 60% of the 163-km footpaths of Dhaka City. The sidewalks are also filled up by construction materials, garbage or even temporary houses of homeless people or beggars.
- 19. Unfortunately YES………. The main cause of traffic jam is the ignorance, not abiding by the traffic rules and less awareness of our people and government. The day we’ll wake up, the nation will also be. And that day all problems of BANGLADESH might be solved too.