Stock Photo - Dhaka, Bangladesh: Traffic jams have become intolerable in Dhaka. Some other major reasons are the total absence of a  rapid transit  system; the lack of an integrated urban planning scheme for over 30 years;  poorly maintained road surfaces, with potholes rapidly eroded further by frequent flooding and poor or non-existent drainage;  haphazard stopping and parking;  poor driving standards;  total lack of alternative routes, with several narrow and (nominally) one-way roads. Dhaka is a mega city. More than twelve million people live here. Day by day the number is increasing and most part of Dhaka is badly affected by the population growth. More than 7 hundred thousand rickshaws (Three Wheeler) ply the city road. This huge number of rickshaws is creating traffic jam. Traffic jam is obstructing trade and commerce. Illegal parking is another reason for traffic jam. Cars, trucks and other vehicles are parked almost everywhere. Faulty traffic signaling systems, inadequate manpower and narrow road spaces and overtaking tendency of drivers create pro-longed traffic congestions and intensify sufferings of commuters keeping people motionless as well as creating suffocating condition in the streets. Also there are bus terminals not authorized by the traffic department and drivers do not go by traffic rules. VIP protocol maintaining is another reason for frequent traffic jams in the streets and divider problem in the city . . s different important roads also causes congestion.