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Mirpur Road,
following the rickshaw ban
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Bus service remains
inadequate on Mirpur Road, causing people to wait in long queues, sometimes
endure much pushing when boarding, and some passengers to travel in
this highly unsafe way--hanging from the
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| This is the NMT bypass
for Mirpur Road, that cuts through New Market. As is clearly shown, the bypass
is neither reserved only for the use of non-motorized vehicles, nor is it
particularly clean or in decent shape (the road in fact is so full of potholes
as to be quite a jarring experience). |
Hmmm, despite the World
Bank's express recommendations, two or three lanes on Mirpur Road are being used
for car parking following the ban. Couldn't those lanes be put to better use as
rickshaw lanes, allowing the smooth flow of traffic for non-motorized as well as
motorized vehicles, and causing inconvenience to far fewer people than is
currently the case? |
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| Another view:
parking in one or two lanes of Mirpur Road, while the rickshaws are
forced to use one narrow segment that does not allow them to pass--and
thus slows all the rickshaws to the speed of the slowest-moving one.
This does not seem the most efficient way to allocate road space! Or
perhaps we simply fail to understand World Bank's wisdom in not calling
for an end to the rickshaw ban, giving the absurd way in which it is
being implemented. |
We're not saying that the situation was
perfect before the ban--but given the high level of rickshaw
traffic, and the many other advantages of rickshaws, it does seem
reasonable to give them far more road space than they are
currently getting! By simply separating them from motorized
vehicles, everyone could move more freely. |
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