In any city, it is inevitable that we see bustling roads with numerous cars and most of the times, roads are clogged up with cars, especially during peak hours. Vehicles are moving at a crawl and even pedastrains walk faster than them. Sometimes, it is pointless to even drive, as walking is faster.
Traffic woes are part and parcel of a bustling city. This is an obvious fact if you have been to cities like New York. The transportation system is there to give us convenience, but sometimes, it becomes a bane to us when it is overused. It polutes the air, it slows down pedastrains, it creates noise pollution, and it is very slow.
Traffic congestion is caused by many reasons. Traffic congestion occurs when traffic's demand for space is greater than the available road capacity. Either that or the road capacity decreases. This is caused by accidents on the road, taking up a few lanes of the road. Traffic can be increased by festivals and events.
In a bustling city, there must be transportation for the population to get to their destination swifly and efficiently. Without a traffic system, people would have no way to get to work, which might be kilometres away, and thus, there will be too little employment, leading to the city having a small workforce.
Although the government have tried to ease traffic congestion, it is still not enough, and traffic congestion poses a big problem. In Singapore, ERP is invented to discourage drivers to drive on specific roads, thus helping to ease the traffic, although some people might not like it.
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