Inhabitants of planet earth are faced with numerous challenges in the form of overpopulation, traffic congestions, and pollution and so on. Metropolitan and other growing cities not only offers basic necessities and luxurious lifestyle but they do come up with their own challenges and one such is traffic congestion. Though widening of roads to overcome this issue is laudable but I don't agree fully and believe there are other alternates available. This essay will analyse the problem associated with extending the width of the roads and will suggest few alternatives.
Proponents of this view point say that widening streets and expressways will help them to increase the number of lanes which in turn can cater more traffic. This strategy will surely help to reduce congestion, but usually, streets and highways are running at their maximum width and widening them either by narrowing the islands or reducing the pedestrian tracks would not be possible. In many cases, this strategy doesn't always work as the building and shops are already located at the edge of the road. For instance, Zaib-Un-Nisa street in sadder, Karachi is already at its maximum width and the only solution to this problem is to allow the traffic to flow in one direction on the entire street.
However, there are many alternate approaches which can be implemented to tackle this problem. We can easily reduce traffic blackening on streets by charging the motorists more during rush hours, car parking should not be allowed on busy roads and overhead pedestrian bridges should be constructed to regulate the traffic flow. We can also use the lane-divider technique like the one used in Malaysia, where one lane of the opposite track is included in the congested track to regulate the flow in busy hours. Moreover, office workers should be encouraged to use car pooling services like Singapore. Furthermore, people should be motivated to use mass transit system like the subways and the metros.
To recapitulate, the aforementioned provides plausible alternate solutions to reduce traffic jams and have highlighted some factors that can limit the extension of road widths. In my opinion, widening of roads will not work always and we should look into using alternate approaches like the ones mentioned above.
Inhabitants of planet earth
are faced
with numerous challenges in the form of overpopulation,
traffic
congestions, and pollution and
so
on. Metropolitan and other growing cities not
only
offers
basic necessities
and luxurious lifestyle
but
they do
come
up with their
own
challenges and one such is
traffic
congestion. Though
widening
of
roads
to overcome this issue is laudable
but
I don't
agree
fully
and believe there are other
alternates
available. This essay will
analyse
the problem associated with extending the
width
of the
roads
and will suggest few alternatives.
Proponents of this view point say that
widening
streets
and expressways will
help
them to increase the number of lanes which in turn can cater more
traffic
. This strategy will
surely
help
to
reduce
congestion,
but
usually
,
streets
and highways are running at their maximum
width
and
widening
them either by narrowing the islands or reducing the pedestrian
tracks
would not be possible. In
many
cases, this strategy doesn't always work as the building and shops are already located at the edge of the
road
.
For instance
,
Zaib-Un-Nisa
street
in sadder, Karachi is already at its maximum
width
and the
only
solution to this problem is to
allow
the
traffic
to flow in one direction on the entire street.
However
, there are
many
alternate
approaches which can
be implemented
to tackle this problem. We can
easily
reduce
traffic
blackening on
streets
by charging the motorists more during rush hours, car parking should not be
allowed
on busy
roads
and overhead pedestrian bridges should
be constructed
to regulate the
traffic
flow. We can
also
use
the lane-divider technique like the one
used
in Malaysia, where one lane of the opposite
track
is included
in the congested
track
to regulate the flow in busy hours.
Moreover
, office workers should
be encouraged
to
use
car pooling services like Singapore.
Furthermore
,
people
should
be motivated
to
use
mass transit system like the subways and the metros.
To recapitulate, the aforementioned provides plausible
alternate
solutions to
reduce
traffic
jams and have highlighted
some
factors that can limit the extension of
road
widths
. In my opinion,
widening
of
roads
will not
work always
and we should look into using
alternate
approaches like the ones mentioned above.