Transportation in Urban Communities: Traffic Problems

The traffic problems that all of us have to face well known. This aspect of urban experience deserves a lot of attention and discussion. As this is a problem faced by all and sundry. As asked in the first question its importance will be explained and in what ways it affects the urban life. It would be difficult to imagine how life will be without transportation a movement of people. It affects the urban experience in many different ways. Road congestion is becoming so common that people take 1 hour to reach at a place where they can be reached in about 20 mins. The traffic problems is a picture of what we witness on an everyday basis in our lives. But there are no signs of it being less than what it was yesterday. This is a scene that happen not only in the rush hours but also many times during the day. So what is the problem exactly?.

Urbanization is defined as the study of the economic, political and social relationships that happens in cities. And anyone who has to specialize in urban sociology will have to study all those relationships. There are three pre-requisites in the development of a city: A good environment and fresh water with a suitable climate, an advanced technology that shall produce a surplus in food and support non- farmers, and very strong social organization that ensures social stability and a highly stable economy.

Urbanization happened rather quickly during the industrial era. One of the most significant factors that shaped urbanization was the development of pos industrial cities. The various issues of urbanization play a very significant role in the study of sociology. The race, human behavior and economics are intersected in the cities. The increased urbanization in the cities leads to many augmented ...

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... problematic. A remarkable achievement to ease the traffic congestion was the setting up of traffic light control.

The red light at the crossings of the road decreases the amount of transportation that circulates in the crossroads. It compels all the traffic to stop in a minute. When the vehicles stop on both the sides, the green light gets turned on and enables the circulation to become easier. The government had made a lot of efforts to ease the traffic on the roads by managing the school time of children that can be made sooner or a little later,checking on the check time of the different factories, putting a tax on the cars when they enter the city, making the transportation administration limited, encouraging the general public to use the public transportation. The answer lies in all of us. We must learn to cooperate and hold patience in our everyday action