Serious Commuter by bicycle:
Why cycle to work and options about purchasing your first cycle for serious commute in Dhaka - YouTube
He took 1hr 20 min by car. 45min by motorcycle. 25 min by bicycle.
I know it sounds crazy but if China can pull it off with their busy traffic system, people in Dhaka should be able to do it too.
Govt should really encourage it:
1. It's cheap.
2. It's environmentally friendly, particularly important to Bangladesh which is 5th most vulnerable nation to national disasters.
3. The distances aren't ridiculous because rickshawallahs are doing the same thing everyday.
4. There's a concern about rising obesity in the middle-class so bicycling would keep things like diabetes under control.
Ofcourse, people will have to get over third-world mentality that bicycling is only for the poor. But the govt managed to convince people to go down from 6 children per woman to 2.3 children per woman in less than 30yrs.