One problem faced by almost every large city is traffic congesstion. What do you think the causes are? What solutions can you suggest?

Traffic

congestion has become a major problem for each metropolitan

city

nowadays. In

this

essay, I intend to discuss apparent reasons for

this

problem and some initiatives that could be taken by the public and authorities to tackle it. The issue of

traffic

jams in big cities is

due to

several reasons. One prime reason is overcrowding,

that is

folks have started shifting to cities from suburban areas and

hence

the streets,

roads

and highways are always full of vehicles as everyone owns a vehicle in urban areas.

Secondly

, the

roads

are not enough or are not big enough to cater huge population and every

city

is interconnected.

Thus

whenever a person travels to a different

city

they pass through the big cities which in result becomes the reason for jams.

For instance

, Faridkot is a

city

in Punjab and the main road has only 2 lanes which are supposed to be 5 or 6 to control the

traffic

. To be stuck in vehicles has become very common and

this

problem can be addressed in different ways. First of all, the government should improve public transportation; it should be affordable, comfortable, fast and safe. With

this

, people will start opting for mass transit to travel

as a result

, the number of cars running on

roads

could be reduced.

Moreover

, the government could implement a rule to drive cars of a certain number on particular days.

For example

, the Delhi ministry began a guideline in which cars ending in even numbers can be driven from Monday to Thursday only,

while

car numbers ending in odd digits in the rest of the week.

As a consequence

, pollution and blockage of

roads

because of vehicles are eradicated to a great extent as per a study. In conclusion, I believe that

traffic

congestion occurs because of myriad reasons and can be solved if the public and government follow some rules.