Addiction and contractual driving have to be stopped: Enayet

Secretary General of Bangladesh Road Transport Owners Association Khandaker Enayet Hossain said, the main reasons of road accidents are addiction of the drivers and their contractual driving. So these two ways have to be stopped. From next month all buses will run under ticket system.

He said these while delivering speech as the special guest in a program of traffic discipline and consciousness at Mohanagar Natyamancha in the capital on Thursday.

Requesting to the law enforcement agency Enayet Hossain said, to detain the addicted test the drivers with machines if necessary. We have no objection in this regard.

He said, from next month all the buses will run under ticket system. In this regard order the vehicle owners for taking necessary steps.

Enayet Hossain said, earlier all buses in Dhaka metropolitan area were plying under ticket system. But during BNP regime the then mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka evicted all the ticket counters in a night. After that ticket selling was going on with ticket counters by setting up those under umbrella. Hijackers began to loot money. Then being forced contractual driving began. That system is going on still now.

He said, we will return to the counter system slowly. We will return to the ticket system again. We will not drive under contract basis. If it is stopped then accidents will decrease. Because, accidents are occurring due to hurriedness.

In the program Bangladesh Road Transport Federation Secretary General Osman Ali said, there are 40 lakh vehicles in the country and against those there are only 23 lakh drivers. BRTA has to be active so that drivers can get license faster.

Osman Ali also requested to bring movement of rickshaws under single line from Kuril to Malibag. He said, it was said to include a chapter in textbooks about traffic rules. That was not done even today. Hundreds of advertisements are given on television and newspapers but no advertisement is given about traffic rules.

AH