Bangladesh Road safety

Government must prioritise road safety

Address systemic failures behind recurring road fatalities
7 August 2026

Reduce preventable deaths and injuries

Alarming rate of road crash injuries, deaths needs urgent intervention
22 October 2025

Proper enforcement is key to fixing Dhaka's traffic woes

Don’t let another traffic signal project fail again
31 August 2025

The human cost of Bangladesh’s dangerous roads

The failure of road safety continues to claim lives with alarming frequency.
25 June 2025

Why can’t we ensure safe Eid trips?

Take steps to prevent further road crashes
12 June 2025

Endless loss of lives on the roads

Govt must make greater efforts to ensure road safety
8 April 2025

Eid journeys should be safe and easy

Take steps to increase highway safety, reduce gridlock
24 March 2025

Will our roads remain death traps?

Mawa expressway crash exposes state failure to ensure road safety
29 December 2024

Time to form a commission to ensure road safety

It is time to form a commission to drive reforms in transport sector
12 November 2024

Ensuring pedestrian safety through co-design and behaviour change models

While road authorities and professionals often attribute pedestrian injuries and fatalities to the reckless actions of pedestrians and drivers, the users themselves frequently point to inadequate and unsafe facilities.
4 November 2024

We need decent working hours to give better service

Working for long hours without rest and sleep can, of course, increase the risk of accidents.
22 October 2024

City corporations shouldn’t be endangering lives

DSCC garbage truck incident shows how negligence is costing lives
28 April 2024

More buses cannot guarantee safer, better service

Holistic approach needed to improve public transport system
6 February 2024

Structural killings, not road ‘accidents’

Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.
17 January 2024

Some relief for road crash victims

Compensation package for affected families long overdue
22 August 2023

A suspicious BRTA diktat

BRTA must work collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure road safety
14 April 2023

A sheer waste of public money

Why were the trauma centres built if they were to be left unused?
31 March 2023

‘Improving road safety can accelerate economic growth’

The World Bank and the United Nations will continue working together with the Government of Bangladesh to improve road safety, Vice President for South Asia of the global financier, Hartwig Schafer says.
28 January 2020

Checking Road Accidents: Long wait for effective steps

Formed in February with former shipping minister Shajahan Khan at its helm, a committee two months later made a 111-point recommendation on how to reduce road crashes and bring discipline in the transport sector.
24 November 2019

1 Year of Road Safety Demo: 22 students still tangled up in cases

Students who took to the streets last year for safer roads could not achieve what they had set out to do, but now many of them have to appear before courts almost every month as the police accused them of vandalism.
29 July 2019