The expressway
This is a very ill thought out project which is only for motorised vehicles. And in a few years the whole expressway will be choked up like the recent 60 mile and 10 day long trunk road jam in China. The expressway exit branches cannot be guaranteed to be free and this will cause the jam on the expressway in the same manner as it is causing now on the present surface roads. Traffic is like water flow and any blockage anywhere will be felt in the whole system including the expressways. Also if there is no clear lane (i.e. 'a hard shoulder' as in motorways in western countries) imagine the problems of rescue in case of accidents on such a long expressway. Such building of expressways will also take away the sky space for any future mass transit sky train system for the city.
I would therefore request the authorities again to think the matter over long term and provide mass transit system for people rather than vehicles, notwithstanding that some vested quarters will always want to go for the building of such expressways.
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