Saturday, January 12, 2008

[greater_noakhali] Transportation System Design for Rickshaw and Hybridizations of Roads & Ric

Followup on "Transportation System Design for Rickshaw and Hybridizations of Roads and Rickshaws"

Here is a news item that would give more food for thought on a topic that was discussed in a previous article. We hope that our planners and policy-makers would seriously look into this. Effective and well participation of all the stakeholders will be ensure to develop a homegrown transportation system that ensures the challenges that we face, instead of copying the western sytems that themselves are destined nowhere! 

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Says expert

Motorised and non-motorised vehicles ply on a Dhaka street. A discussion in the capital yesterday suggested that non-motorised or fuel-free transports such as bicycles and rickshaws should be given priority in Strategic Transport Plan in order to create an environment- friendly and pro-people transport system. Photo: STAR
More than 15 percent of the country's GDP will have to be used just to keep Bangladesh's transport system going by 2030 if the country continues to prioritise motorised vehicles, a transport expert claimed in Dhaka yesterday.

Instead non-motorised transports systems or fuel-free transport such as walking, bicycles and rickshaws should be given priority in the Strategic Transport Plan (STP) in order to create an environment- friendly and pro-people transport system.

Mahabubul Bari, senior assistant manager of Transport for London, UK, said that in Dhaka Metropolitan area 76 percent movement is based on short distance trips, and for this movement there is no need to use motorised vehicles such as buses and private cars.

The fuel-free transport system will not only reduce the fuel import but also will be environment- friendly, pro-people, and cut traffic congestion in the metropolitan area, he said.

Bari was presenting a keynote paper at a roundtable on 'Environment- friendly, Fuel-efficient and Pro-people Transportation System: Present and Future of Dhaka Metropolitan' in Dhaka organised by Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA), with its President Professor Muzaffer Ahmad in the chair.

Pollution-free modes of pedestrian facilities, biking and cycle rickshaws are being given priority even in many developed countries including the UK for short distance travel, he said.

But, the STP has been formulated targeting long-distance travel, he said, adding, "it's difficult for Bangladesh to make a room for non-motorised vehicles since the country does not have enough space, on the other hand many roads are being made off limits to rickshaws."

The STP that was formulated to develop the transport system in Bangladesh stresses the needs of only five percent of the people, those who are using cars and occupy 50 percent of the road, he said.

The contributions for private cars would stand at 31 percent by 2024 from 18 percent and the participation of public transport would drop to 21 percent from 34 percent, if the recommendations of STP are implemented, Bari observed.

Referring to a study, he said 2 percent of GDP is currently being absorbed on importing energy required in transport sector. "If the fuel price increases to $120 per barrel by the year 2030, more than 15 percent of GDP will have to be relinquished in order to keep country's transport mobile," he said.

He also said for long distance travel in the metropolitan area, metro (subway) transport system should be introduced instead of buses and private cars.

"The major objective of the STP should be ensuring movement of the mass of people, not increasing the movement of vehicles," he added.

Other speakers at the roundtable yesterday asked the government to develop an integrated STP through which use of non-motorised and motorised transport systems will be coordinated.

They said apart from introducing metro service, the government should take immediate initiatives to develop the water transport system and also to improve the railway system.

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