New flyovers still a burden 5 months after launching
Everyone had hoped that traffic congestion would ease to some extent after the much-awaited Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover was opened. But barely hours after its inauguration on October 26 last month, the flyover experienced its first traffic jam, with huge tailbacks going stretching back as far as Rajarbagh. The two-storey flyover was cramped.
Microbus driver Sharafat Hossain was vexed like many others. “It’s been nearly 45 minutes and I have not been able to reach Eskaton from the Mouchak part,” he said. “Only god knows when the traffic will ease.”
5 months later, things are pretty much the same, with no respite seeming to be in place from the authorities. The scenes had play out the same way from the flyover’s Rampura to Shantinagar and Razarbagh to Mouchak via Maligabagh stretches.
Shahjahanpur resident Arman Hossain was travelling to Razarbagh from Saat Raasta recently, “The vehicle reached Wireless area quickly but then it was stuck in traffic on the first floor of the flyover’s Mouchak part. After that, it took nearly half an hour to reach Razarbagh,” he said.
“We had pinned our hopes on the flyover and thought we could get rid of the curse of traffic congestions once it was opened,” Eskaton resident Nizam Uddin said. “From what we have seen after inauguration, it appears that the sufferings on the road would never leave us,” he said. “The familiar traffic congestion will continue to plague us.”
Locals’ woe
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