Strike enters 2nd day, commuters’ sufferings underway

Staff Correspondent: Road transport workers continued their 48-hour strike on Monday, holding countrymen hostage and practically cutting off the capital from the rest of the country.

Commuters are also facing untold sufferings today with the road communications all over the country falling apart amid the strike enforced by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation.

No long-route bus operated to and from the capital. In the morning, people woke up in a city where no public transport was available as buses, minibuses and even human hauliers stayed off the streets.

Transport workers are observing a 48-hour strike from Sunday to force the government to bring amendments to the recently passed Road Transport Act-2018.

Many of the office goers and students had to walk to their destinations. Bus terminals in the capital were teeming with commuters waiting for buses but in vain.

Rickshaws have dominated the city roads with the pullers and drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws are charging extra fares. Of the buses, only those of government-run BRTC service is operated in the capital.

The transport workers continued to obstruct private cars, CNG-run three wheelers, motorcycles and even ambulances at different places in the city and elsewhere.


risingbd/Dhaka/Oct  29, 2018/Noor/Mukul