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Dhaka with less than 10 per cent open space belongs to amongst the world's highest populous cities where 40,000 people live/km2 but the well planned cities have over 25 per cent open space. The ill-planned, ill-maintained and ill-managed road networks in Dhaka metropolis presently cover 3,500 Km or less. The city roads have only 500 Km footpath. The footpaths even the RoWs are occupied by 2.0 million squatters, hawkers, beggars, shopkeepers and developers leaving no share to the pedestrians. The traffic loads in Dhaka streets numbering cars (1,50,000), Jeeps/Microbuses (58,000), Taxis (11,000), Buses (78,000) Minibuses (8,500), Trucks (28,000), Auto-rickshaws (14,500), Motorcycles (2, 12,000) and other vehicles (17,000). There are over 800,000 rickshaws, rickshaw vans, pushcarts, bullock carts in addition to occupy part of the city streets. The length of automobiles accounts for 17,50 Kms in total whereas the length of rickshaw alone is over 15,00 Kms. The length different automobiles cover is 600 Km for car, 35 Km for Jeeps/Microbuses, 55 Km for Taxis, 4,70 Km for Buses, 45 Km for Minibuses, 1,70 Km for trucks, 30 Km for Auto-rickshaws, 3,50 for Motorcycle and smaller transports and 15,00 Km for Rickshaws and non-motorised transports.
There were many bus stop in Dhaka city, but at present if we take a look on that bus stop we will see that the bus stops are not available now.....My question is why????We all should search the answer of this.....
