What problem with traffic police & often traffic jammed during evening hrs in SADDAR

[sharif]

What problem with traffic police & often traffic jammed during evening hours in SADDAR area

I do not understand why traffic police always failed to control the traffic flow and most of traffic police even not performing their duty that is the root causes of traffic jammed specially in SADDAR area which become a routine.

1. From Abdullah Haroon (Zainab Market ) to Mobile Market
2. Saddar – Empress Market


Are badly affected due to traffic jammed in evening hours which is due not negligence of traffic police.

The first reason often No traffic signal working in the area of M. A. Jinnah Road, I. I. Chundrigar Road, Saddar which is another reasons of traffic jammed. If any amount spending in repairs of such traffic signals are consider mis use of Govt. revenue.

The second reasons of traffic jammed we have no patience and always in hurry. When traffic jammed than watch how Pakistani driving car or riding bike worst than animal, even we have wisdom as human being but acted like totally un-educated people.

The third reasons majority of us do not flow the traffic rules and more eager how to violate and brake the law but punishment always award to innocent by the Traffic Police

The fourth reasons our traffic police take position or standing where they can catch the innocent who perhaps make violate of law not intentionally but no mercy from the traffic police.

Sorry to say we Pakistani do not learn to wait in traffic signal when it is red but happily wait in traffic jammed; this is foolishness example only available in our country. Request to DIG Traffic Police make a surprise visit and see what reasons traffic jammed, take notice regarding your traffic police performing duty honest or dis-appear from duty?

Thanking You

Yours faithfully


( Ashfaq Sharif )

 

[Jos]

the answer is 42

 

[Ringel05]

Give yourselves another 60 to 70 years and maybe you'll develop a culture of driving and enforcment more similar to ours.

 

[waltky]

Higher gas prices cut down on traffic...

Gridlock eases in many metro areas
22 May`12 - Traffic congestion dropped 30% last year from 2010 in the USA's 100 largest metropolitan areas, driven largely by higher gas prices and a spotty economic recovery, according to a new study by a Washington-state firm that tracks traffic flows.

That was the largest drop since the nation plunged into recession in December 2007. Of the 100 most populous metro areas, 70 saw declines in traffic congestion while just 30 had increases, says Jim Bak, co-author of the 2011 U.S. Traffic Scorecard for Kirkland, Wash.-based INRIX. That was a reversal of what happened in 2010, when 70 had increases in congestion and 30 had declines. Tampa had the biggest increase in congestion, and Minneapolis the biggest drop. "We're experiencing a stop-and-go economy right now," Bak says. "The data indicate the country may be experiencing the jobless recovery economists warned of during the recession."

INRIX collects traffic information from more than 4 million vehicles equipped with GPS devices and from other sources for its annual scorecard. Bak says the data show that the reduction in gridlock on the nation's roads stems from rising fuel prices; lackluster gains in employment and modest increases in highway capacity because of construction projects completed under the federal stimulus program. In some cases, the connection between job growth and increased congestion was clear. Cities that outpaced the national average of 1.5% growth in employment experienced some of the biggest increases in traffic congestion: Miami, 2.3% employment growth; Tampa, up 3%, and Houston, up 3.2%.

Cities that had big drops in congestion often were those that saw road construction slow considerably from 2010 to 2011 and those where gasoline prices were well above the national average at the peak in April 2011. The decrease in congestion in Minneapolis came as the number of road projects dropped from 283 in 2010 to 258 in 2011, Bak says. "So much of the roadwork and construction that was a result of the stimulus is now completed. Construction work in general is down, as governments are reining in spending."

Prices at the pump affected how long motorists sat in traffic. "Cities that consistently had gas prices equal to or lower than the national average, and that experienced modest job growth, were the cities that tended to have increases in congestion," Bak says. Atlanta, which had a 2011 average gas price 20 cents less than the national average and a 1.2% growth in employment, saw the fourth-biggest jump in congestion. The busiest morning and afternoon commute times were 8 a.m. Tuesday and 5:30 p.m. Friday, INRIX found.

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