If you have not experienced the Dhaka traffic and unless you’ve been in one of those demolition derbies, you can’t appreciate what a traffic jam really means.
According to the CNN Travel site, the city can "proud" itself on having the world worst travel. In Dhaka, congestion gets to bad "rush hour" is what they call the least busy times, when rushing is somewhat possible.
A 2011 government report stated that traffic stands still for more than seven hours a day.
Traffic lights, if they exist, are nothing else then decorations as hundreds of thousands of rickshaws, buses, carts, bicycles, farm animals, pedestrians, cars and motorbikes fight each other for space. Crossings, roundabouts or one-way roads are there to be used in the wrong direction, traffic lights and policemen are abundant, but rather broken or ignored. Everyone moves at his own idea or takes the shortest short-cut, no matter what’s in the way. There are about 30 deaths on the roads each day in Dhaka and the only way we try to cope with this is to lean back, watch the chaos and pray to God that we will not be the one of the people who end up in these statistics.
As for getting around, it’s almost certainly quicker to walk, hop or crawl.
According to the CNN Travel site, the city can "proud" itself on having the world worst travel. In Dhaka, congestion gets to bad "rush hour" is what they call the least busy times, when rushing is somewhat possible.
A 2011 government report stated that traffic stands still for more than seven hours a day.
Traffic lights, if they exist, are nothing else then decorations as hundreds of thousands of rickshaws, buses, carts, bicycles, farm animals, pedestrians, cars and motorbikes fight each other for space. Crossings, roundabouts or one-way roads are there to be used in the wrong direction, traffic lights and policemen are abundant, but rather broken or ignored. Everyone moves at his own idea or takes the shortest short-cut, no matter what’s in the way. There are about 30 deaths on the roads each day in Dhaka and the only way we try to cope with this is to lean back, watch the chaos and pray to God that we will not be the one of the people who end up in these statistics.
As for getting around, it’s almost certainly quicker to walk, hop or crawl.
I think these pics sum it well up!
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