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