Photo: Palash Khan
The association has deployed its people at bus stands to monitor whether anyone was violating the government instructions.
While visiting Gabtoli, Shyamoli, Kalyanpur and Mazar Road in Dhaka in the morning, our photojournalist Palash Khan found transport workers asking passengers using loudspeakers to wear masks before boarding buses.
Photo: Palash Khan
Officials at the counters of Shyamoli Paribahan and Hanif Paribahan said the number of passengers were less than their expectation.
Khairul Islam, divisional transport officer (Dhaka) of Bangladesh Railway, said five passenger trains left Dhaka s Kamalapur Railway Station since this morning.
Photo: Amran Hossain
Although long-haul bus services remained suspended since early last month, it had very little impact on the number of vehicles which travelled between Dhaka and the north-western districts via Bangabandhu Bridge last month.
Around 5.72 lakh vehicles crossed the country s largest bridge in April, down from 6.14 lakh the previous month, according to the monthly traffic report released by Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA).
Some 3.10 lakh vehicles used the bridge in April last year amid suspension of public transport services, shows the report.
The number of cars and motorcycles using Bangabandhu Bridge saw a sharp rise during the lockdown as these light vehicles apparently replaced buses as modes of transport, sources said.