SOLVING TRAFFIC

PROBLEMS
PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT..
• The harmful effects on human health

• The damage to the environment caused by the noise, vibration, acid

rain and global warming.

• The waste of time and of non-renewable fuels such as petrol and oil
in traffic jams.

• The use of valuable space in city centres for parking cars and trucks.
BUILDING BIGGER, STRAIGHTER ROADS
WAS A WAY TO SOLVE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS.
HOW TO SOLVE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS?
BETTER FORMS OF TRANSPORT

Use cars and trucks less Waling and cycling are good for short
journeys. Healthy exercise and cause
no pollution at all.
Buses, trams and trains can carry many people at once and cause
a lot less pollution per person than cars.
HOW TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO STOP
USING CARS OR TO USE THEM LESS?
• Increase tax on petrol and diesel oil
• Making parking in towns and cities more difficult and more expensive.
• Not letting cars and trucks into some towns and cities at busy times.
• Closing some shopping streets to motor vehicles, so that they can only be used
by pedestrians.
• Park-and-ride schemes (park in car parks on the outskirts of towns and cities
then travel into the centre by bus)
• Trying to encourage more companies to send their goods by train instead of by
trucks.
SUBWAY AND METRO SYSTEMS
• London, New York and Paris have large network of underground or subway
trains.
• It is very expensive and difficult to build, but reduces the number of people
travelling on road.
• Cairo, Kolkata, Seoul, Dubai, Moscow, Beijing have built electrically driven
light railways or Metro systems to carry passengers from one part of the city to
another quickly, safely and with little noise and pollution.
The Metro system in Seoul, South Korea, is the
world’s longest subway system and has the most
stations.