The authorities have long tried to persuade private car owners to use the public transport system instead of driving but have never succeeded. Now the question has been settled in a part of Beijing overnight with the opening of a most needed block-free traffic line and a cut in the metro fare.
Given the huge difference in travel time and cost before and after the new move, who would not give up driving for public transport?
This example illustrates that so long as the authorities make sure a new way of life they advocate is tangibly beneficial, the citizens will naturally follow it. Let's again take the public transport system as an example. Before more underground lines are built, buses will remain the main means of public transport. However, they are no faster than private cars even though there are exclusive bus lanes in some streets. Most of the time, the lanes are occupied by other vehicles.
In my opinion, the government should take more forceful measures to ensure the smooth traveling of buses on the exclusive lanes. For example, two lanes, rather than one, can be reserved for buses in major streets (Beijing has built many new broader trunk roads in recent years).
Another reason for the slow moving buses is that those that run along the express ring roads cannot use the overpasses because the stops are usually set too close to the bridges. If the stops are set a little further away from the bridges and a lane for buses constructed over the bridges, the traveling speed of buses will be greatly raised.
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