footpaths

The Dhaka North City Corporation Administrator Mohammad Ejaz speaks at a public hearing with residents of all wards under the city corporation zone-7, held in the capital, on 24 April 2025. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Avoid battery-run rickshaws, don't buy anything from vendors on footpaths: Dhaka North administrator

Mentioning that battery-powered auto-rickshaws are illegal all over Bangladesh, the administrator said people demanded to impose a ban on the vehicles and hawkers on footpaths

Rickshaws clog the Chawk Circular Road in Old Dhaka, making the movement of pedestrians difficult. A glut of rickshaws on narrow roads and alleys contributes to traffic jams across the city. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Rajib Dhar
Bangladesh

One-way street, clear footpath: The way Dhaka can untangle its traffic knots

Photo: Rajib Dhar
Bangladesh

Cash-strapped middle class resort to footpath for Eid shopping

File photo of High Court
Court

Death of Bangladesh Bank official: HC asks why failure to keep footpaths safe should not be declared illegal

Of broken pavements and Dhaka’s pedestrians
Thoughts

Of broken pavements and Dhaka’s pedestrians

The foods available on the vans include biriyani, polao, roasted chicken, beef or mutton rezala, fish fries, etc. Photo: Junayet Rashel
Panorama

A feast on the footpath

A walkway should be split in three zones. There should be an eight-foot space from the front of any structure, serving as the building’s external buffer zone. A pedestrian or walking zone, can be the next eight-foot space, which should only be utilised for continuous walking. There should be trees and other furnishing facilities like benches, street lamps, garbage cans and designated space for vendors in the following four-foot space. There should be inlets for a proper drainage system to avoid standing waters. To avoid random electric poles within the walkways, the electric lines can be placed beneath the ground. Illustration: TBS
Habitat

Why our walkways are unwalkable

Why our walkways are unwalkable
Habitat

Why our walkways are unwalkable

Photo: Collected
Court

High Court asks for the list of footpath lessees

Pilot project makes space for both pedestrians, street vendors
Bangladesh

Pilot project makes space for both pedestrians, street vendors

Illegal grabbers free up footpaths in Nimtoli fearing eviction
Bangladesh

Illegal grabbers free up footpaths in Nimtoli fearing eviction

Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Dhaka North knocks down traffic police boxes on footpath

Representative Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

DNCC demolishes police box blocking footpath on Mirpur road