pavements

Editorial / Un-walkable footpaths

A photo published in this newspaper last Monday is a perfect example of how good initiatives, when conduced without proper planning or implementation, end up achieving nothing. In order to prevent bikers from using the pavements recently built by the DNCC, which include a special lane dedicated for the visually impaired, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has set up concrete pillars on them on both sides of Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue.

Pavements with tactile track for the blind

Sarower Hossain still has some pain in his right leg.

Editorial / Who do the pavements and footbridges belong to?

Anyone who has ever taken a long walk through the streets of Dhaka can vouch that it is unfriendly to pedestrians.

Editorial / Freeing up roads and pavements

Speakers at a recently organised seminar were informed by minister for roads and communications Obaidul Qader that the principal hindrance to freeing up roads and pavements from illegal squatters is political pressure.

April 3, 2018
April 3, 2018

Un-walkable footpaths

A photo published in this newspaper last Monday is a perfect example of how good initiatives, when conduced without proper planning or implementation, end up achieving nothing. In order to prevent bikers from using the pavements recently built by the DNCC, which include a special lane dedicated for the visually impaired, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has set up concrete pillars on them on both sides of Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue.

June 23, 2017
June 23, 2017

Pavements with tactile track for the blind

Sarower Hossain still has some pain in his right leg.

August 29, 2015
August 29, 2015

Who do the pavements and footbridges belong to?

Anyone who has ever taken a long walk through the streets of Dhaka can vouch that it is unfriendly to pedestrians.

June 24, 2015
June 24, 2015

Freeing up roads and pavements

Speakers at a recently organised seminar were informed by minister for roads and communications Obaidul Qader that the principal hindrance to freeing up roads and pavements from illegal squatters is political pressure.