Quader claims normalcy on highways

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader has urged people not to travel on the rooftops of vehicles.

Regretting the Rangpur road crash that killed at least 16 truck-passengers, the minister made the call while talking to newsmen, on the sidelines of inspecting the traffic movement on highways at Chandra of Gazipur on Saturday.

Quader said a group of low-income people had been tryng to save money by going home on a cement-laden truck.

The minister said the situation of vehicular movement has remained normal across the country, a claim contrary to the media reports that homebound passengers were seriously suffering from either huge tailbacks or the snail pace of traffic on both of the country’s two major highways - Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Chittagong.

Source: Prothom Alo