Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Avoiding The New York Traffic

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By Tammie Caldwell


The city of New York is very densely populated. It is one of the biggest and the most densely populated cities in the world. When in New York expect to find lots of movements of people, trains, motor, vehicles motorcycles and bicycles . You may also on some occasion see tricycles and animals such as dogs and cats. Carts are another means of transport of goods that you may see. All these movements are the causes of New York traffic.

The design of most roads is that there are movements that occur from various directions. When these movement surpass a certain number it results to reduced speed or brakes altogether.this will cause more cars to also stop. If a car stops then the one behind must also stop. This continues until the number becomes substantially sustainable by the available network.

The city has many superhighways that have more than six lanes. Despite this, the problem still persists. It can be attributed to the influx of motors into the highway being greater than the number coming out. Thus, there are other causes that results to the traffic apart from the number or sizes of the road.the number of lanes also do not matter.

One factor that causes traffic is for example if accidents occur on the road. It true to say that incidents and accidents may results to traffic jams. As a result several lanes may be closed. However, it, s also true to say that jams are a major cause of these unexpected events. That why it is important to come up with ways that may curb this piling of vehicles on the roads.

You will also find out that there are many infrastructure developments that are always going on within town. It is good to avoid the routes where these projects are taking place. This works may be to expand the available roads or building of new ones . This is done to accommodate for the increasing number of vehicle usage.

Sometimes the weather is very harsh. Extreme snowfalls results to very slippery roads. Drivers are forced to drive slowly and carefully. They therefore have to brake frequently. This means that they spend more time on the road. In return the fuel consumption goes up and travel cost also. Other situations such as a cop giving a warning to an offender may also result to jams.

The City authority has been trying to look at various ways to reduce jams. The fundamental principle is that the supply must meet demand. This means that the roads available must be able to support the available vehicles. Road networks are very expensive and long term and continuous process.

Among the ways that are being used is providing special lanes for vehicles with a high occupancy. This is known as car pooling. People who share cars are given the privilege of using the fast flowing lanes. Other methods that are being used are ramp metering. This method allows cars to enter the highways or lanes at timed interval. It has been showed to lower accidents and improve traffics speeds.




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