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Why Dhaka cannot simply ban the rickshaw (opens the original)
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Every year or so, Dhaka decides that rickshaws have to go. In May 2024, the roads minister ordered battery-run rickshaws off the capital's streets. Within days, after drivers themselves took to the streets in protest, the decision was reversed. That November, the High Court gave the authorities three days to remove them from Dhaka; within a week, the Appellate Division had stayed the directive. Another ban followed in 2025. Then, this August, the government changed course, proposing an eight-zon
Dhaka accidentally built the city planners now want. Can we make it liveable? (opens the original)
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Look closely at how Dhaka actually moves, and a different story emerges. The buses and horns take the headlines, but at street level, most people are simply walking. They walk to the corner shop, to school, to the kitchen market, to the mosque, to the rickshaw stand that carries them the last kilometre. The city the world files under “gridlock” is, on the ground, one of the most walking-dependent places on earth. That is not a matter of temperament. It is a matter of how close everything is. The
Why blaming Dhaka's bus drivers misses the real problem (opens the original)
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Watch a local bus pull away from almost any Dhaka intersection and you will usually notice him first: a boy or young man leaning out of the open door, one hand gripping the frame as he calls out the next stop over the noise of traffic. He is the helper, the most junior member of the crew, and he may be as young as 14. He is not hanging there simply because he is careless. He is doing the job as the system requires him to do it, on a route where functioning bus stops are often nowhere to be found
Dhaka: How a city was planned to drown (opens the original)
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In 1840, the East India Company’s civil surgeon at Dacca, James Taylor, watched the Buriganga swell with the monsoon and reached for a comparison that has cast a shadow over the city ever since. The river in flood, he wrote in Sketch of the Topography and Statistics of Dacca, gave the city “the appearance, like that of Venice in the west, of a city rising from the surface of the water.” This was not idle flattery. The Mughal capital that Subadar Islam Khan founded in 1610 was built as an amphibi
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