The tragic, honest-to-God truth is that Dhaka is nobody’s "jaadur shohor". It hasn’t been so for a while. And despite many developments, city life only seems to be getting worse for the lot of us.
While tyre burst could be the most plausible cause for the March 19 road crash in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila, it was the absence of guardrails that led to many fatalities and severe injuries, said Buet’s Accident Research Institute (ARI).
After spending Tk 119 crore over 15 years on traffic lights that came to nought, Dhaka South City Corporation has moved to install an artificial intelligence-driven signalling system which experts fear is destined to fail.
Even though the number of motorbikes and deaths in bike-related accidents is rising sharply, only 34 percent of bikers wear helmets while driving, according to a recent study conducted by the World Bank and Buet's Accident Research Institute.
On November 24, 2021, Naeem Hasnat, a student of Notre Dame College, was run over by a Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) garbage truck in Gulistan. It was later known that the truck was being driven by a cleaner in the driver’s absence.