Essay On Traffic Jam

Traffic congestion or traffic jam is the amount of vehicle moving along a road which can be the number of airplane, trains, and ships moving in their routes. This makes the road or routes being blocked or it can get packed which can cause difficulties. The most frequent of traffic jam is by using vehicles using roads. According to Independent (2013) report that by 30 June 2013 the UK population was 63.7 million people which has increased by over 400,000.This growth result in United Kingdom being one of the fastest growing pollution in European countries in the year of 30 June 2013.Therefore, UK is the 3rd largest EU Nation after France and Germany according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures. As Department for Transport (2014) reported that in 31st December 2013 there was 35 million vehicles that had been licensed to use on the road in United Kingdom. It was an enormous increase ever since 2007 with a 1.5%.Most popular car use is Ford Focus 1.5 million subsequently Ford Fiesta with 1.3 million. Average carbon dioxide emission for cars has fell to 3.4 % in 2013 related to 2012, to 128 grams per kilometres. Smaller cars pay lower car tax and have lesser carbon dioxide emission.

There are countless reasons for the cause of traffic jam everywhere around the world, but this will be based in United Kingdom. Rosen, A (2013) emphasizes that first of all there has been saturation of cars and not enough roads are the main cause that leads to traffic jam and not enough parking space and road for the vehicle to drive on. The road cannot be expand further. The result of this is by having a very high car ownership with 31 million according to Leibling (2008). Secondly, the bad public transportation for example waiting too long f...

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...y and low emission zone and limiting emissions from vehicles. The traffic volume has been decreased in recent years when the solution have been applied. Adding the public transportation have been increased with more buses and tube line so this will lead to more people using public transports that means lower carbon dioxide.

Overall the traffic congestion are reoccur problem around the world and many solutions have been imply, most of these solution have been a positive impact with the country which decrease traffic jam. According to The Guardian (2012) Transport for London show traffic volume has decline for 10 years however, a lot of money has been spent on more bus, tram and tube with 35% journey stages. Traffic congestion has been reduced and the solution has work. However, the increased of birth rate means that traffic jam will be a problem for United Kingdom.