How Can We Reduce Congestion?
Creative Thinking is Needed to Solve Our Growing Transport Problems
'Pay as you go' for road users has some merit and needs to be explored. As drivers we have grown accustomed to being able to use roads freely at any time. But we ration most scarce things by price - so why not road use at busy times?
Here are some of my ideas for improving transport and reducing congestion:
1. More roads - yes - more roads with better layouts, more tunnels and more flyovers.
2. Better, cheaper, faster public transport.
3. Road usage pricing at peak times to reduce congestion
4. Higher speed limits on freeways, motorways and some other roads (faster speeds = shorter journeys = less congestion).
5. Higher speed limits at quieter times of day - e.g. before 7 am to encourage people to drive in to work early.
6. The separation of pedestrians and cyclists from motor lanes where possible to reduce accidents and to allow higher speeds.
7. More incentives for home working and home deliveries of shopping - including safe receipt while you are out.
8. A campaign to get children going to school on foot, bicycle or bus.
9. Computer controlled cars that break automatically if the traffic ahead slows or stops.
10. Free internet access on all public transport as an incentive to commuters.
11. Corporate sponsorship of public transport - Google buses or Apple trains?
We need lots of suggestions, debate and trials. Not just gut reactions, objections and petitions. Everybody wants to be able to drive anywhere anytime but congestion is killing our economy. Let's encourage more ideas and experimentation.
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What if all roads were one way http://www.mindmapinspiration.com/what-if-all-roads-were-one-way/
All roads one way may be an answer, even if a partial one.
Best wishes
Paul
What if all roads were one way?
Sounds absurd at first, yet is it such a crazy idea?
I feel the benefits are potentially huge. Reduced congestion and improved flow. Less accidents and less road rage. Greater flexibility for maintaining the roads; less traffic lights, less painted lines, less roadwork’s, less potholes, less damage. Diversions would be minimal and road closure simplified.
Routes would flow, directions would be far simpler, more space for vehicles and flow lanes for public transport. Safer parking, safer for road users, safer overtaking, safer for pedestrians and road worker’s. Emergency vehicles could have easier journeys, road conditions would be greatly improved, surfaces and verges would be easier to maintain, signage clearer, cheaper and easier to understand and pace and flow more controllable.
I've created a Mind Map illustration & explain more about the idea in my Blog Post:
"What if all roads were one way?"
http://www.mindmapinspir