自行车回归,能否拯救北京交通_BEC初级作文

自行车回归,能否拯救北京交通

But will public bicycles provide the much needed antidote for Beijing’s traffic woes? The program’s performance has not been very impressive so far. According to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transportation, 170, 000 rentals were recorded in the past year, meaning the average rental frequency is less than once a day for each bike. Comparatively, rental frequency in Hangzhou was more than three times a day a year into the program.

但是公共自行车能否为北京的交通顽疾送上一剂急需的良药？到目前为止，该项目还没有非常令人印象深刻的表现。根据北京市交通委员会的数据，去年公共自行车租借了17万次，这意味着平均每辆自行车的租借频率不到一天一次。相比之下，杭州该项目运营一年下来，每辆自行车的租借频率超过每日三次。

One key problem that bicycles cannot solve in Beijing is transportation to downtown from the outer suburbs. The national census shows that by 2010, 40% of Beijing’s population lived in the city’s 10 suburban districts, which are simply too far away from the city center to make bike-riding feasible. For instance, Tongzhou District in the southeast corner, connected to downtown by one of Beijing’s most jammed highways, is at least 50 minutes away by bike. As more white-collar workers move to the suburbs for their lower housing prices, transportation to downtown will become only a bigger challenge.