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Transport delays and long journey times are a widespread phenomenon in many cities today. What are the causes of this problem, and how could the situation be improved?

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Undoubtedly, transportation has become
integral
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an integral
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 part of urban
cities
.
However
,
traffic
 jams and prolonged
travel
time
 is becoming common these days. Increased number of
vehicles
 and poor
infrastructure
 could be the main root causes
to
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of
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this
 problem. In
this
 essay, both these issues will be discussed in detail.
Firstly
, more and more new
vehicles
 are being added to
town's
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the town's
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traffic
 due to
increase
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an increase
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 in sales of
four-wheeler
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a four-wheeler
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 and
two wheeler
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two-wheeler
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 companies, which has indeed increased the
traffic
 jams. Now can
restriction
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restrictions
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 be imposed to
travel
 on
public
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the public
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? No,
this
 can be done, but at least we can create
time
 zones in congested areas of
cities
 for
movement
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the movement
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 of heavy-commercial
vehicles
. For an instance, in Delhi,
traffic
 jams are quite common due to which
administration
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the administration
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 has stopped the movement of load-carry
vehicles
 to pass through
city
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the city
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 after 7 a.m. and before 11 p.m.
This
 has eased the pressure on
traffic
 within the city.
Hence
,
by
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apply
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stopping the large
vehicles
 for
certain
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a certain
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time
 period tends to curb the issue of long
travel
time
 within the
cities
 which has become common due to
increasing
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the increasing
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 number of
vehicles
 on
road
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the road
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 day by day.
Secondly
, poor
road
infrastructure
 has led to delay during
travel
. Narrow and broken roads handling
traffic
 movement more than
its
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their
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 capacity are common these days.
Moreover
, if parking facilities are limited, people are bound to park their
vehicles
 on sides of
road
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the road
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 which is causing
major
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the major
a major
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 issue of
traffic
 in
cities
.
Road
 to airport in Jaipur city perfectly exemplifies
this
 scenario where
this
 old bitumen
road
 had developed cracks and it was not wide enough to absorb the
traffic
. Due to increasing people's complaints
last
 year new cemented
road
 and exclusive parking building were built and
new
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the new
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road
 is wide enough to solve the problem of unnecessary delays.
Therefore
,
infrastructure
 is the key factor
which
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that
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 decides whether one faces
travel
 issues or not. To conclude, ever-increasing
vehicles
 on
road
 and poor
infrastructure
has
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have
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 created
devastating
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a devastating
the devastating
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 effect on
traffic
 issues.
Therefore
,
solution
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the solution
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 lies in
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the
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amendment of
traffic
 rules and
construction
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the construction
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 of
healthy
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health
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infrastructure
.
Submitted by Pooja Dhindsa on

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