Rail reduced in size, while the road kill

Gusan Hossain
bdnews24.com correspondent

Dhaka, Oct 15 (bdnews24.com) ? Bangladesh communication system is strongly inclined on roads, making them more prone to frequent breakdowns and fatal accidents, experts say.

There is also a lack of coordination ? says this expert, citing data and statistics ? between rail, air, water and road. This, they say, a major reason was why achieving targeted objectives developing communication efforts.

While Bangladesh fights to improve rail remains so far neglected despite the clear leader in security.

Eleven people were killed and 139 were injured nationwide accidents in railway, in 2009-10. Roads were much more dangerous.

Data is very difficult to obtain, but the values for 2008 a gloomy picture of ? road accidents killed 2723 people and 658 "seriously" injured.

The figures were collected by media forum for human rights and environment development (MHED) in the context of a survey of the country's communication system.

"The most popular mode of travel, could have our railways", says Akhter Mahmud Jahangirnagar University.

"But slow expansion of the network holds pressure on the roads," said Mahmud of the city, and planning, bdnews24.com.

According to MHED, meets, it has a poor growth of the rail network in the what is now Bangladesh. In fact, the railways declined coverage since 1940.

From 1862 to 1940, almost 2.858 kilometres were built rail tracks.

Rail tracks routes now only 2.835 km ? a loss of 23 kilometres in 71 years.

Today, Bangladesh has 270.565 km of roads, grow only 462 kilometers in the then East Bengal in 1947.

The streams of Delta now offers 5.968 km of waterways more or less.

Despite stagnation in the railway extension, people have made in the last ten years on the rail. The railway was more than billion passengers in 2000-1, almost doubled the number and 7.61 billion over 10 years.

BUET Professor Sarwar Jahan throws high accidents of dependence on road. Jahan, also head of the Bangladesh Institute of planners, "the pressure on the road communication is a result of underinvestment and poor planning in the field of communication over a long period of time," said bdnews24.com.

Source: bdnews24.com

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