Speed limit guideline on all types of vehicles

The speed limit for cars, buses, and minibuses on expressways would be 80km per hour, while it would be 60kmph for motorcycles and 50kmph for trucks.

Bikes and trucks can run inside city corporations, municipalities, and district towns at a maximum speed of 30kmph which would be 40kmph for other vehicles.

If anyone violates the speed limit, they will have to face punitive actions under the Road Transport Act-2018. Violators will face up to three months' jail or a fine of Tk 10,000 or both, says the act.
These are some of the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Speed Limit Guideline-2024, which the BRTA for the first time issued to reduce road crashes.

The Road Transport and Highways Division on Sunday approved the guideline.

This guideline, which sets different speed limits for different types of roads and vehicles, will come in force from today, Nur Mohammad Mazumder, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), told The Daily Star last night.

Speeding and reckless driving are considered major reasons behind road crashes, but there had been no guideline for speed limits on highways and roads.

Different government agencies -- which are constructing roads -- are setting different speed limits for similar kinds of roads, confusing drivers.

The number of speedy vehicles -- passenger and goods-laden ones -- have increased manyfold with the expansion of the country's road network and thus road crashes are frequent, reads the preamble of the guideline.

BRTA, under the Road Transport Act-2018 and its rules, issued the guideline to halve road deaths by 2030, which is a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) .