Dr Md Shamsul Hoque, professor of civil engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), talks to Monorom Polok of The Daily Star about the role of systemic failures and corruption behind the alarming rate of traffic fatalities in Bangladesh, and the critical structural reforms required to curb it.
The act mentions a trust fund for victims, but it took four years after its passing for the fund to be set up.
The core problem lies in the fragmented ownership of public transport.
As of September this year, road crashes and fatalities have seen a year-on-year increase of more than 10 percent, according to government data.
Questions have been raised by road safety activists as to whether a human life can be valued at only Tk 5 lakh.
