Vendors and makeshift stalls have occupied footpaths in many areas of the capital city in the absence of monitoring by the authorities concerned. Vendors most often set up their shops on the footpaths, hampering pedestrians’ movement and forcing them to walk through roads amid risk of accidents,
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Pavements perpetuate pedestrians’ misery
Narrow, battered and occupied pavements in the capital city continue to pester the commuters with hardly any effort by the agencies concerned to improve the situation despite repeated orders by the Supreme Court. Except a few well-paved footpaths with good width scattered in different parts of the city, almost all the walkways are broken and ... Read more
Prices rein in Eid shoppers on city footpaths
Eid shopping at roadside makeshift shops, where mostly the lower and middle-income group people go, in the capital did not gain momentum till Friday as most of the blue-collar and pink-collar workers were yet to get their festival allowances, with about 18 days left for Eid-ul Fitr. Footpath vendors and other people concerned have also ... Read more
New makeshift shops on city footpath
Intense traffic congestion feared Before the capital’s shimmering shopping malls to turn buzzing with shoppers, its footpaths wore a busy look with small traders and hawkers occupying footpaths even two-days ahead of Ramadan. It is a common scene in the capital that footpaths turn too much crowded occupied by small traders and hawkers during Ramadan, ... Read more
Pedestrian movement hindered
The increasingly common practice of keeping construction materials on the Dhaka city’s footpaths and roads is causing pedestrians’ difficulty in walking down the pavements as well as creating traffic congestion and pollution to the environment, many city dwellers have told New Age. The Dhaka City Corporation officials admit that this practice is increasing but added ... Read more