What do you think is the causes and solutions of traffic congestion?

Question

i'm doin a geog sba, and i really need ur help, thanks for the answers

Answer 1

1. population is increasing, children are growing up to teenagers and teenagers are growing up to adults, they get older they drive. 2. People are relying on cars too much, there's no need to drive to go four blocks down the street, you can walk or bike. 3. Public transportation is expensive and not efficient, some times public transportation can't take you there, only cars can. 4. Rubberneckers on highways create traffic problems because everyone is slowing down observing creating a backup of cars behind them.

Answer 2

In our area in NY there are many reason:

1. Traffic during the NY Mets, NY Yankees, Empire City Game in Yonkers.

2. Rush Hour traffic and especially Holiday Weekend Traffic

3. Reckless Car Drivers and Slow Moving vehicles/Horse-Drawn Carriage/Bike Taxi

4. Major Parade like Puerto RIcan Day Parade

5. Subway and other emergency construction work affecting the roadways.

6. In some part of Long Island, Westchester/Rockland Counties, NY and NJ, railroad crossing. In Long Island, during rush hour, main line railroad crossing gets lot of train traffic.

Answer 3

There are a number of causes or traffic congestion. Basically it is due to the fact that many people choose to work during roughly the same hours and commute to work by private vehicles.

Coupled to this there are other factors, due to accidents and blockages, police care in keeping good road safety by making the traffice slow down, bad design of junctions and interchanges, shortage of money for making necessary improvements, traffice lights that are timed but insensitive to the relative amounts of traffic coming from different directions, lack of interconnections between sets of traffic lights when they are close to each other, selfishness of the drivers in forcing their way into a stream of slowly moving vehicles etc,

Along with this, the solutions are to restrict the numbers of vehicles by staggered working hours, congestion charges for center of town use, better design of intersections with more investment being made, driver education and stiffer fines for offences and the use of smaller vehicles.

It is still a mystery to me why single driver-vehicles are the same size as family saloons and weigh at least 12 times as much as the occupant. They are harder to park, take up more road space, use more fuel and produce more noxious gasses.Large cars should be outlawed and fines paid for their use in town, except when absolutely necessary.

Answer 4

accidents and rubber neckers.  stupid people  (rubber neckers) but also those who freak out when others are around.  traffic doesn't need to jam just b/c there is a lot of it, just continue to flow... and don't slow down before your exit.  that's what the ramp is for.  keep driving.

also b/c people don't use cruise control they slow and speed up causing a 'inch worm' affect in the back.

Answer 5

you cant fix stupid if people wouldent rubberneck so bad