Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Only way to reduce traffic in cities is to reduce number of people coming out of their homes

It is certainly true that traffic in many big cites around the world is ever increasing , myriadly.Even smaller cities are no longer insular from the traffic congestion and over-crowing problems.However, indeed it it disagreed that it can only be curbed by fending off people from coming out of their home and making them feel like prisoner.Analysis of further supported arguments such as making public transport more effective,encouraging citizens to stop abounding use of their private vehicles , making roads and streets more wide and setting up goverment and private offices in a scattered manner throughout the city will prove this.

First of all, many poeple suggest that , prominent public transport system is the most effective way to reduce the traffic congestion problem of the cities.Those who are in support of public transport claim that traffic congestion has been reduced to even zero level  in many world class cities by introducing wide spread practice of effective public transport such as buses, local trains metros and so on.For instance , as per my peronsal experience ,commencement of metro trains in Delhi  has dramatically reduced traffic congestion and even cut the over travel time across the city.Thus it is true to say that .the problem of trafic jam and overcrowding can also be eradicated be providing better means of transportation.

Secondly, insfrastructure of a city also makes a crucial contribution in smooth flow of the traffic and its management which condues to the idea that making roads much wider, installation of adequate number of traffic signals at each road intersection and training cummuters to follow the traffic rules as well as making  them follow by setting up high penalities are few alternate solution which can be put in place to get rid of the  traffic congestion problem.Therefore, I am convinced that methodical arragement of cities infrastructure can be one of the solution to eliminate overcrowding.

Finally,one of the most eminent way to overcome cities traffic issue is to plan beforehand by scattering business centers , goverment offices as well as private companies head quarters and working location across the city.It has generally been observed that most of the cities across the world has same traditional organising structcure in which the whole city is devided beween two type of vicinities such as office area and residential locality.Thus most of the inhabitants travel everyday from their residence to office.As a solution , we can have a new model in place , in which , office and residential area can be mixed to cut ,unnecessary travel hence subsiding  traffic congestion and overcrowding  at a particular place.As a result it can be said that a solution to traffic congestion is to place different offices at different location rather than building them in a  central vicinity.

To summarize , confining people to their home for reducing the traffic congestion and overcrowding is not the best way to deal with the problem and even it is not ethical too.After due analysis it is anticipated that other alternation option such as making public transport more effective, widening the roads and distributing the office at various location are more viable and should be given due consideration.

1 comment:

  1. apna kam karo trafic ka petcha kyo pade ho jo karsakta ho vo to karta nhe ho desh sudharoga.

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