Eid-ul-Azha holidaymakers are spending longer time on the highways in terrible traffic hold-up.
With the extra pressure of vehicles to transport travellers, passengers have to suffer several more hours as the makeshift cattle markets thrown up for the Eid even beside the highways have narrowed the road.
On the highways from Dhaka to Chittagong, Tangail and Mawa, the scenario was almost the same. Vehicles were crawling on Wednesday like they did on Tuesday.
It takes over an hour for the vehicles to cross one kilometre on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway due to the work to build the elevated expressway and the cattle markets.
The pains of the passengers on the highway starts at Jatrabari, the starting point of the vehicles destined for the southern and eastern districts. The regular jam on Kanchpur bridge remains, adding to the sufferings of the holidaymakers.
Vehicles moved at a snail's pace from Meghna bridge to Comilla's Gouripur on Wednesday.
Qamrul Islam, a passenger of a Comilla-bound Asia Line bus, told bdnews24.com that he started at 4pm and was fretting about when he would reach home.
"Several cattle markets have been set up beside the highway. Vehicles of other routes are increasing the pressure by using this highway," he said.
bdnews24.com's Comilla Correspondent was at Chouara Bazaar. He also put down the jam to the cattle markets.
At Mawa, a passage for 17 southern districts, the lack of piers caused the gridlock. Piers at Paturia of Manikganj and Daulatdia of Rajbari were also seemed to be inadequate to handle the vehicles. Passengers had to stop at the piers for around five hours on Wednesday.
Munshiganj Correspondent said three main terminals are out of order now. Vehicles are using two new piers, one of which is for lighter vehicles only, to cross the Padma river.
Over 600 vehicles stranded on each of the roads linked to the piers at the two ends, Mawa and Kewrakandi. The number was increasing fiercely.
The gridlock stretching from Gazipur's Chandra to Tangail's Karatia became longer for the trucks that could not use the pier at Mawa.
Rakibul Hasan from Biswas Betka of Tangail got on a bus at 6am in Dhaka. He reached Tangail at 1pm.
"I didn't get it why the vehicles got stuck for hours. We've come to know that the trend of the drivers of inter-district buses and cattle-laden trucks to make some extra profit by driving fast and overtaking others caused the gridlock," he said.
Tangail district Road Transport Workers Union General Secretary Mir Lutfar Rahman told bdnews24.com: "Not only the buses in Tangail, buses of northern and southern districts and cattle-laden trucks have created additional pressure."
Highway Police's Gorai station in-charge Sanwar Hossain said if a vehicle breaks down, it takes a long time to reach it, let alone repair or remove it fast.
With the extra pressure of vehicles to transport travellers, passengers have to suffer several more hours as the makeshift cattle markets thrown up for the Eid even beside the highways have narrowed the road.
On the highways from Dhaka to Chittagong, Tangail and Mawa, the scenario was almost the same. Vehicles were crawling on Wednesday like they did on Tuesday.
It takes over an hour for the vehicles to cross one kilometre on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway due to the work to build the elevated expressway and the cattle markets.
The pains of the passengers on the highway starts at Jatrabari, the starting point of the vehicles destined for the southern and eastern districts. The regular jam on Kanchpur bridge remains, adding to the sufferings of the holidaymakers.
Vehicles moved at a snail's pace from Meghna bridge to Comilla's Gouripur on Wednesday.
Qamrul Islam, a passenger of a Comilla-bound Asia Line bus, told bdnews24.com that he started at 4pm and was fretting about when he would reach home.
"Several cattle markets have been set up beside the highway. Vehicles of other routes are increasing the pressure by using this highway," he said.
bdnews24.com's Comilla Correspondent was at Chouara Bazaar. He also put down the jam to the cattle markets.
At Mawa, a passage for 17 southern districts, the lack of piers caused the gridlock. Piers at Paturia of Manikganj and Daulatdia of Rajbari were also seemed to be inadequate to handle the vehicles. Passengers had to stop at the piers for around five hours on Wednesday.
Munshiganj Correspondent said three main terminals are out of order now. Vehicles are using two new piers, one of which is for lighter vehicles only, to cross the Padma river.
Over 600 vehicles stranded on each of the roads linked to the piers at the two ends, Mawa and Kewrakandi. The number was increasing fiercely.
The gridlock stretching from Gazipur's Chandra to Tangail's Karatia became longer for the trucks that could not use the pier at Mawa.
Rakibul Hasan from Biswas Betka of Tangail got on a bus at 6am in Dhaka. He reached Tangail at 1pm.
"I didn't get it why the vehicles got stuck for hours. We've come to know that the trend of the drivers of inter-district buses and cattle-laden trucks to make some extra profit by driving fast and overtaking others caused the gridlock," he said.
Tangail district Road Transport Workers Union General Secretary Mir Lutfar Rahman told bdnews24.com: "Not only the buses in Tangail, buses of northern and southern districts and cattle-laden trucks have created additional pressure."
Highway Police's Gorai station in-charge Sanwar Hossain said if a vehicle breaks down, it takes a long time to reach it, let alone repair or remove it fast.
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