Conseil offers strategy for Beijing traffic woes

Five advisers of Member State Council offers recently proposed solutions for problems with the traffic in Beijing for the rational use of cars and control the consumption of cars by economic means.

Increase in the cost of the use of car

The latest data from the transport sector shows that the number of motor vehicles in Beijing is expected to exceed 7 million by 2015, and the average speed of driving will be only 15 km/h, which is equivalent to a person only at medium speed.

Due to restrictions on the use of cars and cheap there are too many cars, running on the road, which has caused the coaches to stuck in traffic jams, under Guo Tingjie, end with the Council of a Member State.Therefore, Beijing is to control the car consumption over the next five years through economic instruments, such as collection of parking fees and prohibition of organisations from the extension of free parking for private cars.

Development of public transit

Only after the development of public transport is a major priority will more people give up driving. Wizards of accelerating the construction of new channels, new towns. bus route no duplication of the long lines instead. streets take several short lines connecting with each other, "said Sheng Peimeng, end with the Council of a Member State.

In addition, many offer optimization of the system of public transport and increase coverage of buses and subways. certain other resident, I hope to open a car ferry between their communities and the latter stations — usually a distance of 1 kilometre or several kilometres – to solve their problems.

Advance planning

What separates the Beijing from other international bustling metropolises is almost 70 percent of its cars are concentrated in the city proper.

We need to consider how projects, such as Central Park for the business area, will affect the traffic before you have designed and not just hope the transport sector will solve the problem after the fact, "said Shi Dinghuan, the end of the State Council.

Wang Jingxia, another end, recommended to promote adaptation available to the public and large structures and new projects, which shall be transferred to new cities, such as, Daxing Shuanyi and Tongzhou.

Priority to the development of public transport

Beijing traffic authority yesterday said they will seek to realize a situation in which 45 percent of people select bus travel in the area of the core of the city and the control of the proportion of cars in the 30 percent.

Also referred to the establishment of the transport planning during the twelfth five year plan (2011-2015) has established the mid. all public recommendations will be included, if they are the people concern and are in line with the development.

By Liang Jun ' s, the people's daily online

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