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TRAFFIC-VIOLATION-FINE
Even Tk 17 lakh fine daily can’t manage haywire traffic
DHAKA, July 27, 2018 (BSS) – The traffic has gone haywire despite
realizing of Taka 17 lakh in fine on an average per day due to increasing
trend of traffic rule violation resulting in nagging traffic snarl in the
capital causing immense sufferings to the city dwellers.
Although Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is on hot pursuit to take legal
action against the traffic rule violators, driving on wrong-side, using
hydraulic horn and tinted glass in vehicles as well as plying unfit vehicles,
talking over mobile phone while driving are going on full swing. They even
put their lives, pedestrians and others at risk due to reckless driving.
“People can go to office and even return home due to initiatives taken
by the traffic police, otherwise, the capital city will be turned into a dead
one due to many reasons mainly for shortage of roads, and densely
population,” Additional Commissioner Meer Rezaul Alam told BSS today.
Describing shortage of roads and huge population are main reasons for
traffic jam, he said, “Even a sensible person tends to violate the traffic
rule after he has been caught in traffic jam for two or three hours. If roads
were sufficient enough, people would have never violated the traffic rule.”
Police should control the traffic signals instead of city corporations
for better management of intersections which help to ease the traffic jam, he
opined.
In accordance with available statistics of the last several months of
the DMP, traffic police realize Taka 17 lakh in fine and file over 2000 cases
on an average everyday against different modes of vehicles for traffic rule
violations.
Of the cases, on an average 700 are being filed against motorcyclists a
day for violating of the traffic rules. While 40 to 50 motorbikes are being
seized everyday for the same reason.
Experts say the unruly motorcyclists cause accidents, violate traffic
regulations and even create nuisance to pedestrians by driving motorcycles on
footpaths and wrong-way due to lack of proper enforcement of traffic rules
and in absence of strong monitoring.
Many of the owners even do not register their motorcycles with Bangladesh
Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) and often use their motorbikes in
committing crimes, they said.
The frequent seizure of these vehicles has caused another problem as the
yards police stations are being occupied with motorcycles, he said.
Wrong-way driving is going on in full-swing in the capital despite the
DMP files over 200 cases on an average a day.
The DMP files over 60 cases on an average per day in the capital for
talking over mobile phone while driving.
On an average of the total cases, as many as 44 cases are being filed
for using hydraulic horn, seven for using hotter and beckon light and nine
others for using tinted glass.
Likewise the previous days, traffic division of the DMP in their
simultaneous drives on the city streets on Wednesday filed 2309 cases against
different modes of vehicles for traffic rule violation.
It also realized over Taka 17.43 lakh as fine from owners, said an
official release.
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