DHAKA, April 29, 2010: A Roundtable was organized jointly by the World Bank and Dhaka Transport Coordination Board (DTCB) to discuss the international best practices of the institutional and financial issues for urban transport. The World Bank funded Clean Air and Sustainable Environment (CASE) project facilitated the roundtable that was joined by more than 30 Government officials.
The World Bank is supporting the Government of Bangladesh in its efforts to improve the urban transport in Dhaka. The CASE project in confirmation with Government’s Strategic Transport Plan for Dhaka would prepare transformative investment for urban transport in Dhaka including Bus Rapid Transport as a predecessor to other large mass transit projects.
The speakers stressed on setting up adequate institutional and regulatory framework as prerequisite for any successful Mass Transit projects. The Government has already decided to revise the DTCB Act 2001.
Hubert Nove-Josserand, Senior Urban Transport Specialist of the the World Bank presented experiences from large metropolises that present good examples of urban transport organization in the roundtable with the Government Stakeholders. The experiences drawn from other busy metropolitan cities demonstrated the importance of having a legally empowered urban transport authority that represents the various stakeholders with regulatory power, financial power.
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