Own Correspondent: The Transport Owners Sramik Oikya Parishad called a transport strike from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18, in 3 districts and upazilas of the Chittagong southern region, including Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf-Bandarban road and PAB Banshkhali.
Their demands in support of the strike are: prevention of accidents on roads and by-roads; bringing order to the roads; banning minibus chassis from local garages into double-decker buses; plying on unpaved roads as sleeper coaches without the approval of BRTA; and external AC/non-AC bus route permits. Stopping unequal competition between vehicles due to violations of conditions and carrying passengers on local routes, banning easybikes, battery rickshaws, tomtoms, and illegal three-wheeler CNG-powered autorickshaws responsible for road accidents and loss of life, and removing market stalls along with illegal installations on both sides of the road as per the Highway Act, Elimination of discrimination of double fines in the same traffic law in Dhaka and Chittagong in the country, renovation of Chittagong Bahaddarhat regional bus terminal and adoption of security measures, implementation of the decision to ban the transport of salt in open trucks, requisition trade in the name of sending buses, minibuses, and coaches with route permits in two districts to remote areas and upazilas of the country Closed, immediate clearing of piles of garbage at Cox’s Bazar Municipal Bus Terminal
Earlier on October 9, the transport workers protested by stopping the bus service for two hours on all the routes in South Chittagong, including Cox’s Bazar-Bandarban from Chittagong city.
