what are the solutions to traffic congestion?

Answer 1

Ban all vehicles that have just 1 person in them - on my journey home 9 out 10 cars that passed the bus I was on had just 1 person in them.

Answer 2

We have the worst congestion in Europe and the worst Rail and bus systems with the highest prices.yet the government thinks pricing will change our minds.It is nothing more than a revenue raising scheme.People have to get to work and public transport is too slow, too expensive and inadequate.

it is time they bit the bullet and made some decent investment in our public transport infrastructure so we have got a proper integrated transport system.My daughter lives in Basle Switzerland where the transport system is amazing.Trams go everywhere, every 7 minutes and they have double Decker trains.Lots of people there don't bother owning a car and traffic is very light.If she wants to go skiing she gets the train because it is fast and cheap enough.

But of course all we get here is excuses.We cannot use double Decker trains because the Victorian bridges are too low - how absurd! Cyclists cannot ride to the station use the train and cycle to work at the other end because there is no room for their bike - how absurd! The bus journey of 3 miles to my work takes 1 hour - how absurd.

I agree with the suggestions from other answers about time shifting and junction improvements etc but it is high time the government provided a viable alternative.If Tony Blair really wanted to leave a legacy he should have bit the bullet with transport instead of nannying us.

Answer 3

Stopping grants given to big foriegn companies who build on greenfield land & entice the government with jobs & manufacturing output would be a start. As would people wanting to live 'out of town' while working in the city.
Congestion occurs simply because at 8 am, tens of thousands of people need to be somewhere else & at 5pm, they all want to go home. No public transport system in the world can cope with this reality & if they tried, the roads would be just as blocked with buses as they are with cars now.
Get a job 5 miutes walk from home is the only answer.

Answer 4

Stagger work hours so people can show up at 10 and leave at 6, or show up at 7 and leave at 3; that would take a lot of rush hour traffic off the roads. Let people work weekends and get 2 week days off, that would get some more traffic off. Synchronize traffic lights on major arterial streets so they can carry a smooth flow of traffic--every needless red light, every needless stop, eats up petroleum and pumps out needless pollution.

Answer 5

Better planning of road junctions.
Staggered work times(if poss)
Sensible phasing of traffic lights at peak times
Some sort of incentive for people to car share
Kids walking to school
Road haulage companies delivering at night.
Putting more freight onto the railways
Making better use of the commercial ports around the UK whats the point of unloading 200 containers at Newhaven when say half need to go to the Midlands send them by sea further along the coast then unload them.
A decent public transport system would also help.

Answer 6

Start a lobby group to get your local bus company to make the fare for persons over 49 years of age to be 25 cents. This will take a lot of old slow drivers off the streets. If the bus routes are not very good, they can put their bicycles in a rack on the front of the bus. The exercise will do them good.

Answer 7

All major Interstates should have routes around major metropolitan areas. Why should we have all these OTR truckers driving through the middle of rush hour traffic if they are not even delivering anything to the city they are stuck in? Some cities do have this, and it makes the city centers a bit better since at least the coast to coast trucks aren't driving through the narrow downtown areas that most major freeways seem to traverse.

Answer 8

All of the above, plus incentives to carpool or use (hopefully improved) mass transit. Widening highways, new highways, more limited access routes around cities and towns for through traffic. There are many things that can be done, but all cost money. If you are going to see improvement, you are going to have to pay higher taxes or tolls.

Answer 9

Scooter. Practical, cheap and fun as you can whizz in and out through all the stationary cars on the congested roads.

Answer 10

Invest in alternative transport, to give people a reason to leave their cars behind

We already have fees for licences, tax and fuel duty

fuel duty IS a pay as you use charge
haseveryone forgot this???

The further you drive the more you pay.

invest in better, cheaper public transport, and people will want to leave their cars behind, as owning tyhem is already to dear