Quader, who was inducted in the Cabinet four years ago, was interacting with the press at the Dhaka Reporters' Unity on Monday.
He said he had been able to improve road infrastructure marginally, but hardly minced words while conceding failure to improve road etiquette.
Expressing anguish that close to 50 lives had been lost in road traffic accidents during the Eid holidays, the minister said most of these incidents had been caused due to reckless driving rather than road conditions.
"Improved roads are inviting trouble now. People would drive slowly on broken roads in the past," he observed.
He is now seeking out ways to avoid these disasters.
The Awami League Presidium member blamed politically influential people who he said often did not care about the law and caused the anarchy on the road.
"Although the common man goes by the law, it is difficult to make the uncommon man to follow the law," he quipped.
He said vital infrastructural projects like the Dhaka Metrorail project, the Padma Bridge and the Karnaphuli tunnel are going ahead at an encouraging pace.
No pressure for snap polls
Despite the BNP’s call for snap elections, the government is under no pressure to comply, Quader said.
"Why should we beg for votes?" he wondered.
“Why, then, should we go begging and make a mockery of everything?"
He added that there was no pressure either from inside or outside the country to yield to the BNP’s call for early elections.