Excessed traffics - please please help :)
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 6:23 pm
Excessed traffics has made cities unpleasant places to live and work in. For this reason private cars should be banned from city centers. To what extend do you agree?
I have never had a car in my life. I am of the opinion that a car isn’t necessary to a person who lives in a big city. I use public transport in winter and a bike when the weather gets better. As for me – that would do.
But my opinion fortunately doesn’t make the law. Actually, this topic has gave me the food for thought. The truth is that I know many people who must have a car and they often use it not without the reason. Besides, would it be really better for the urban area if all the cars vanished from its centers? Downtowns would be less noisy for sure. Problems with traffic jams would be ended once and for all as there would be no cars except taxi cabs. All the bikes would ride without disruptions from other commuters. The air we breathe would be cleaner if cars stopped contaminate it with carbon dioxide.
But is it possible to induce people who got used to cars to travel by ecological modes of transport? I dare say it is next to impossible. I think that the problem will be replaced to the suburbs or to other cities in which such a ban doesn’t exist. It is likely, that people in white collars will stay by their cars. They will probably try to figure out where they want to work since then. Maybe the outskirts of the cities will be affected by an urban sprawl and jam packed with office blocks and cars, and traffics?
Actually, I think that instead of imposing a ban we should provide an extra payment for driving cars in city centers. It is a solitude of many European countries, London included. It will bring a cut down on travelling there for no reason. The money could be spend on a road infrastructure.
Although, even if that seems to be the best way to settle this issue and make cities better places to live and work in, we must face the truth that the powers that be in Warsaw would probably never allow it. Even though, why shouldn’t we talk it over once in a while.
I have never had a car in my life. I am of the opinion that a car isn’t necessary to a person who lives in a big city. I use public transport in winter and a bike when the weather gets better. As for me – that would do.
But my opinion fortunately doesn’t make the law. Actually, this topic has gave me the food for thought. The truth is that I know many people who must have a car and they often use it not without the reason. Besides, would it be really better for the urban area if all the cars vanished from its centers? Downtowns would be less noisy for sure. Problems with traffic jams would be ended once and for all as there would be no cars except taxi cabs. All the bikes would ride without disruptions from other commuters. The air we breathe would be cleaner if cars stopped contaminate it with carbon dioxide.
But is it possible to induce people who got used to cars to travel by ecological modes of transport? I dare say it is next to impossible. I think that the problem will be replaced to the suburbs or to other cities in which such a ban doesn’t exist. It is likely, that people in white collars will stay by their cars. They will probably try to figure out where they want to work since then. Maybe the outskirts of the cities will be affected by an urban sprawl and jam packed with office blocks and cars, and traffics?
Actually, I think that instead of imposing a ban we should provide an extra payment for driving cars in city centers. It is a solitude of many European countries, London included. It will bring a cut down on travelling there for no reason. The money could be spend on a road infrastructure.
Although, even if that seems to be the best way to settle this issue and make cities better places to live and work in, we must face the truth that the powers that be in Warsaw would probably never allow it. Even though, why shouldn’t we talk it over once in a while.
