This
October 19 file photo shows a staggering 20-kilometre-long tailback
from Baoikhola in Basail upazila to Elenga in Kalihati upazila gridlock
on Dhaka-Tangail highway causes immense sufferings to homebound people.
Hundreds
of homebound passengers have been facing untold suffering on
Dhaka-Tangail highway since Tuesday morning as vehicular movements came
to a halt stretching on 25-km area from Gazipur to Tangail. Several hundred of vehicles including buses got stuck on the highway from around 11:00am due to heavy pressure of vehicles ahead of Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja -- two major festivals of Muslims and Hindus--reports our Tangail correspondent quoting Md Mamun Mia, a sub-inspector of Gorai Highway Police Station.
The SI said the tailback was created from Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur to Pakulla in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail as a huge number of cattle-loaded trucks from the northern districts were rushing towards the capital ahead of the eid.
He also blamed the truckers and the drivers of other vehicles for the nagging gridlock as they usually did not comply with the traffic rules.
The situation worsen by the presence of a level crossing at Dherua in Mirzapur and 22 speed breakers stretching on 45-km from Kaliakair to Elenga in Tangail on the highway, the SI added.
Additional traffic police have been deployed on the highway to ease the vehicular movement.
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