BRTC Eid special services from June 13
The state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation will start its six-day special bus services across the country from June 13 ahead of Eid-ul-Azha...
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BRTA reattempts to register motor vehicle workshops after 12 years
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has restarted an initiative after 12 years to bring the motor vehicle workshops under registration as required by the Road Transport Act, 2018...
Govt shouldn鈥檛 let train services operation out to private hands
THIS is a good piece of news that the railway authorities, which run keeping to the Railways Act 1890, are updating the legislation understandably to keep pace with the changed context of the modern world...
A welcome decision that needs to be properly implemented
The decision not to allow battery-run vehicles on roads in the capital city is welcome. The road transport and bridges minister at the first meeting of the Road Transport Authority advisory council committee on May 15 instructed authorities not to allow battery-run vehicles...
Battery-run vehicles banned from city roads
The road transport and bridges minister, Obaidul Quader, on Wednesday instructed the authorities concerned not to allow battery-run vehicles on Dhaka city roads...
Speed cap fixed at 80kmph
The government has fixed the maximum speed limit for motor vehicles at 80 kilometres per hour in an attempt to reduce road crashes...
BRTA finds rise in Eid-time road accident deaths
The statistics of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority showed that the number of fatal road crash victims during this Eid-ul-Fitr holidays increased compared with last year...
77 people killed, 109 injured in road accidents in Apr 10-14
At least 77 people were killed and 109 more were injured in 70 road crashes across the country between April 10 and 14 amid the Eid-ul-Fitr vacations, according to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
Govt non-committal towards road safety
THE death of an eight-year-old boy having been crushed between two buses at Gulshan in Dhaka on April 4 yet again shows that the authorities concerned have allowed the road to continue to be a death trap for citizens...