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>[Dhaka, Bangladesh] almost completely lacks the basic infrastructure and rule of law that make big cities navigable. There are just 60 traffic lights in Dhaka, and they are more or less ornamental; few drivers heed them. The main problem with Dhaka’s anarchic streets, though, is that there aren’t enough. The Daily Star has reported that just 7 percent of Dhaka is covered by roads. (In places like Paris and Barcelona, models of 19th-century urban planning, the number is around 30 percent.) Footpaths are also an issue. There are too few sidewalks in Dhaka, and those that exist are often impassable, occupied by vendors and masses of poor citizens who make their homes in curbside shanties.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/t-magazine/travel/dhaka-bangladesh-traffic.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/t-magazine/travel/dhaka-bangladesh-traffic.html
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