Colourful city Street and Avenue scenes, both Old and New

A Vendor, with his puffed-rice, in search of buyers and reaching out for the big tree shades in the heat of the day!

THe bright coloured big tree summer blossoms not only beautify the streets, they also provide shades for passer-bys and a smooth breeze under the scorching summer heat. 

A rickshaw van, it does take passengers!

Rickshaws are a common means of transport.

A busy bus stop

A large rickshaw stand

This is the season of summer heat and rain, as I mentioned before, it is also a season filled with colours and flavours of fruits and flowers even alongside busy streets and avenues, I cannot but wait to share this batch of pictures and thoughts!! Thus, the street scenes end up being very bright, simply lively! When you follow the street scene one is amazed by the colours of the different types of vehicles, from rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, to vans, open trucks, cycles to cycle vans. The street vendors, make it lively and interesting too, from flowers to puffed rice to mixed nuts flavours! Then, ofcourse the mangoes cannot be missed along the avenue trees. Mouth-watering green mangoes to ripe ones are the most popular summer fruits after lichis and jackfruits and stand as a treasure for us as there ar e used in many recipes here in summer as 'olives' are in Italy.  They are practically used in everything, from appetizers to meals to fruit drinks, not to forget their daily use in lentil dals, to chutneys and sweet and sour pickles.

The flower vendor hidden behind his bouquets

The Mahakhali flyover that the city connections began with....

The newer modern look comes from the addition of flyovers at intersections, or for dividing routes in the inter city highways hoping to reduce the traffic load and build faster network of communication between cities and to easily spread out the traffic in different directions with the city. One of them recently opened, divides the airport traffic load, while the other one diverts traffic to newer connections and they spread out to the portions on either side of the airport on the norther part of the city. While the southern parts are also being connected by flyovers with intercity southern links. Hopefully all of this will reduce the city traffic jams and will lead to better communication networks, for exit and entry of traffic both from the southern and northern parts of the busy metropolis and the rest of the country. Let us hope for the best and wait and as the demand becomes higher and higher each day.

The recently finished and opened to public, the airport flyover!

The newer northern link, expanding, Dhaka metropolis

As we rise high, at times we do risk it too, without realizing, sometimes in a fun-loving way, so truly we need to abide by all rules. 

The newer flyover links on the northern part of the city

The concentrated bill boards and vehicles all add to the colours and jams on our roads and highways.