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The Prince needs your opinion!!

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Hello everyone!!! It's been along time since my last thread....

Well, I'm working in a group english project and it's about creative thinking. The project has three parts: Brainstorming, The six thinking hats and Randon Words. I'm doing the Brainstorming topic and my friends are doing the other topics.

So, i want u to help me to find solutions and give me your opinions to solve the following problem: "How to reduce traffic congestion on the roads?"

The problem is that i should write at least 35 ideas... i know it's crazy but i will do my best to collect the solutions...

Plz, i need your help and i will be thankful for every single opinion!!!

Hmm let's see now..... Well, mebe probhibiting the use of transport to nessecary needs only? like work and emergancies?

simple. introduce cheaper fares for public transport.

that would not work since there are so many loopholes and in doing so you make the streets that much more congested. Honestly there is no real quick solution for this problem. Living in California i deal with terrible traffic. Several methods can be used to ease traffic. A) encourage more carpooling. B) create new highways C) make longer raillines. While i know that many of these are already being pushed they are the only real way in which traffic can be solved. OTher than that there isn't much more.

so far the best I can think of was to have the people disciplined. I mean...people are the ones holding the solution all along.

How to reduce.... To make the analysis where most of all there is a proside. To impose travel by that part of road; or to make so that people home came back at various times.

i remember some national "walk to work day", i dont know if that actually exist but im sure there was one to promote walking and not to use cars

One way could be to increase the price of parking places/lots... make it expenssive so people will have to re-consoder using public transportation...

Quote by schimkei remember some national "walk to work day", i dont know if that actually exist but im sure there was one to promote walking and not to use cars


I heard something like that too. In this case the day was called "car-free". In Denmark this car-free-day was used a couple pf years ago (I don't know if they still use now though). In some cities, once a week and for a couple of hours, cars were not allowed. People could only use bikes, walk or use public transportation...

MY LIFE FOR THE PRINCEEEEE If The Prince increase the petrol cost the traffic will be decriesed :)

Just raise the gasoline's price and in no time, the number of vehicles in the road will be EXtremly reduced. Just like my country did! :nya:

Quote by RammstonEMY LIFE FOR THE PRINCEEEEE If The Prince increase the petrol cost the traffic will be decriesed :)

Even more? Are you mad? >_>
I suggest regulations concerning the amount of time a person may spend on the road per day (hell if I know how to actually implement that idea into a functional system though). There are too many lazy morons who think they have to take the SUV to buy a candy bar at the supermarket down the road.

I think a good idea is to expand the road or make like fats lines in the highways.

here in the philippines, we have a system called "color-coding",although it actually focuses more on what your car plate's last number is. cars with plates ending with 0-1 are not allowed to be used on mondays, 2-3 on tuesdays, 3-4 on wednesdays, and so forth.. although traffic here is still rampant, to be hones, it was reduced because of this.. also, the government is investing big money on light rail systems, and more efficient super hi-ways.. hope that would be of help

Well in singapore the govt. made these checkpoints where there would be a reader to scan your car...once u pass this reader, you would have paid $1 or more for going in that direction...so because of this, the govt. put operation times on these checkpoint...say 7am to 7pm in the night...so some road ways, if people are afraid of paying more...then they would take another road making the main roads less congested...and make more use of other routes which are less utilized...

And about the reader, there is this machine installed in every car...so u jus push in a cash card, (which you top up with money if you run out) so there will be a slot to push in the card...then this machine will be linked to the reader, which will deduct the amount to money on the cash card if a car goes by... Hope that helped ^^

what about of different times for the ppl that works or alternate routes for heavy transports, even less cars could work ^_^' XD :D

in the UK we have bypasses...so that if you dont need to be in the city you just travell around it.......also...if you wanna be in the city....we got park and ride schemes....you park your car and get a paid public transport into the city.....also this stoips the amount of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere ^^

I would say improve mass transit like buses, taxis, and rail systems.
Also, encourage people to walk or bike instead driving if they are going short distances.
Maybe increase the price of gas and if needed widen roads and create bypasses.
Also, encourage people to use side streets instead of only the main roads.

Make other forms of travel more accessable and affordable. Have bike lanes specifially for riding your bike, carpool lanes on the highways and make public transportation safer and more affordable. I'm sure that would help solve a lot of the problem. ^_^

Quote by RammstonEMY LIFE FOR THE PRINCEEEEE If The Prince increase the petrol cost the traffic will be decriesed :)


why don't rather get rid of petrol, it'll help more

your hignes i think there is a solution in peoples thinkitng and the way how they live so if you won't less trafic you should stimulate the people to use more public-transport so there wouldn't be needed so much cars on the road and then there is something like to make that people go to school, job and so on at the sam time and not one after the other
but one of my ideas make cars fly XD
will write if i get an better idea ....

My suggestion is to either find a different road to take, or to build more lanes so there will be less traffic and also to add a carpool lane where only if there is more than one person like they have in California. I apologize prince but thats all that I can think of I hope it helps. :)

How about... have everyone drive motorcyles, and have the lanes skinnier?

*shrugs* It was the only thing I could think of that hadn't been said.

Well, most of the ideas I was thinking of was already posted >.<

How about the correct timing for traffic lights to open, and the right time to remain opened. For example, a road with 4 traffic lights, where the 2nd light opens 20 seconds after the first opens (so when the cars from the 1st traffic light arrive at the 2nd one, the light opens instead of them waiting for the traffic light to turn green). The same timing should be set for the 3rd and 4th so the car movement is smooth with stopping being a minimum. Kinda complex to apply but effective I guess if properly set up.

Hope my idea was useful, and ganbatte Dark Prince on the project =)

Who said that raising gas/petrol prices would work? None of you seem to live around the Los Angeles area. In spite of higher gas prices, the freeway system is even more congested. I blame part of this on the increased aggitation of drivers. They get into more accidents because their so pissed off.

One suggestion is to just be more curteous on the roads. My logic in this simple... if traffic can be kept moving, there will only be slow downs, not one big 20 mile parking lot. Bigger vehicles (say transport trucks, semis and the like) should be given higher priority... and wasteful vehicles... Limos espeically.... should be banned.

A little suprised on the first page, no one has mensioned the Automated vehicle project, where computers make the decisions for the passengers and eliminate the driver.

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