Many cities have serious problems with traffic congestion? What are the causes of these problems? What are some possible solutions?

Nowadays more and more
cities
suffer from overcrowding and
traffic
jams, making life and everyday tasks longer and more complicated. In my view
this
happens due to poor public transport system and inaccurate time
management
,
consequently
improving these issues would be the best solution.
First
of all many metropolises don't feature a well organised and
capillar
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capillary
public transportation so that workers and families rely on private means
such
as
caro
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car
or scooter to accomplish their daily tasks.
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sicilian
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cities
are particularly affected by
traffic
congestion owing to the lack of buses, metro and so on. What is
more
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inaccurate time
management
is even more detrimental for
cities
viability,
in other words
opening schools, shops and offices at the same moment make things even worse. As a matter of
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governments and local councils should take actions to improve these two aspects to tackle the problem of roads congestion. Evidently investing more
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public transportation, increasing the number of means, making them more frequent and covering city centre as well as the outskirts could easily improve the situation. An example of
this
comes from Scandinavian countries where people rarely use private means and
traffic
flows
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smoothly. Undoubtedly delaying opening and closing hours of schools, amenities and workplaces would decrease the pressure on motorways due to a reduced number of contemporary circulating cars. To conclude
traffic
congestion is an ongoing issue of modern
cities
caused by low investments and poor
management
that could be easily tackled with prompt actions
such
as an improved public transport system and
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better time
management
.
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