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Transportation and poverty reduction (Bengali,
English)
Transport
affects many aspects of life, and can either reduce or increase poverty.
Learn more about how transportation policy can reduce poverty while
increasing people's access to what they need.
Parks or parking? (Shoup summarized)
Zoning
rules that require commercial establishments to provide parking may seem to ease
the problems caused by parking in the streets, but in fact do the opposite:
they encourage car use and the wastage of space for parking rather than for more
important and profitable uses. Donald Shoup's book, The High Cost of
Free Parking, available from the American Planning Association, is a
detailed analysis of the problems caused by free and under priced parking in
America and throughout the world.
"Improving Dhaka's Traffic Situation: Lessons from Mirpur
Road" (English,
Bengali)
What have we learned from the rickshaw bans on Dhaka's streets?
What should we do to improve our traffic situation?
Ban the
rickshaw--or save it?
On 17 December, rickshaws were banned
on the stretch of Mirpur Road from
Russell Square to Azimpur. Was the policy a wise one?
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