[sustran] Re: Banning NMT (Rickshaw) on roads of Dhaka city

[Dr Kh Zahidul Hoque]

>Dr Zahid wrote:
>
> > Regarding exclusive
> > lane for NMT, I thing Dhaka city is too congested to afford
> > extra lane for
> > NMT.

Alok Jain Wrote:
>
>All the more reason to promote NMT. Densely built areas are particularly
>adaptive to NMT. And I am surprised to see no mention of public transport /
>modal shift in any of the suggestions.
>
>Alok Jain
>Hong Kong

I am very much interested to know space constraints along the roads are 
particularly adaptive to NMT. While the city roads are so narrow that it 
cannot accommodate existing vehicles and hardly there is any spare 
land/space for an expansion or additional lane, how an exclusive lane for 
NMT could be justified?

Public transport/modal shift will definitely come in for detail study. Of 
course, when you ban NMT on the major roads, there should be sufficient 
public tarnsport to facilitate modal shift from those NMT.

K Z Hoque
Singapore



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