Hossen Sohel: Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP’s) initiative of setting up 4,077 metal pillars has become an effective means of checking motorcycle plying on footpaths, which helps ensure safe movement of pedestrians in the city, reports BSS.
“We’ve achieved a complete success in checking motorcycle plying on city’s footpaths through installation of 4,077 metal pillars on footpaths across the DMP area with our own finance,” said DMP Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia.
“Our next target is to make the city’s footpaths free from illegal occupation,” he said, hoping that this new endavour would be successful.
The DMP chief requested the owners of the refueling stations not to sell fuel to the motorcyclists having no helmet so that the bikers are compelled to wear safety helmets.
Asaduzzaman also said the DMP began a month-long special campaign from yesterday to bring discipline in the traffic management system and create awareness among people to stop the incidents of recurrent traffic rule
violations.
In the recent Traffic Week in August, it was found that motorcyclists were the most violators of traffic rules as more than half of 88,293 traffic rules violation cases were filed against bikers during the period.
On Tuesday last, about 2,657 cases out of 5,532 were filed against the riders of two wheelers while 130 motorcycles were seized for allegedly violating traffic rules.
According to the case statements, the motorcyclists were mainly accused of violating traffic signal, failure to produce valid documents and driving licenses, not wearing helmets, and travelling on wrong routes.
Although the DMP is taking legal actions against motorcyclists for traffic rules violation, many bikers have been constantly breaching the traffic rules and regulations, putting the lives of pedestrians and others at risk.
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