Passenger Welfare Association Calls for Immediate End to Transport Strike

The Bangladesh Passenger Welfare Association has urged an immediate halt to the transport strike called by transport owners’ associations and workers’ federations, accusing them of holding the nation hostage to fulfill their demands in a manner reminiscent of the previous regime’s tactics.

In a press release issued on Sunday (August 10, 2025), Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, General Secretary of the Bangladesh Passenger Welfare Association, made this appeal. The statement criticized the unchanged behavior of the new leadership in the transport sector despite a change in leadership following the mass uprising. It noted that the previous government, in collaboration with transport owners and workers’ federation leaders, consistently made self-serving decisions that increased chaos, disorder, and anarchy on the roads. These leaders were also involved in drafting the Road Transport Act 2018, which the association claims ignored public interest. The Passenger Welfare Association had repeatedly tried, without success, to provide public-interest-oriented suggestions for the law.

The statement further highlighted that old, dilapidated vehicles, a major cause of road accidents, are tarnishing the country’s image and causing daily commuting hardships for the public. In the context of a new Bangladesh shaped by the sacrifices of martyrs during the mass uprising, the new leaders of transport owners’ associations and workers’ federations have resorted to old tactics, calling for a transport strike to weaken the Road Transport Act and reverse decisions to phase out old vehicles. The association urged transport owners to withdraw the strike, resolve issues through dialogue, ensure road safety, phase out outdated vehicles, introduce sufficient modern public transport, maintain road discipline, and show sensitivity toward passengers and civil society.

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