Traffic jams
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Albeit we are expressing apprehension and shouting for a resolution on a regular basis and the government is striving to mitigate the traffic congestion, this crisis is looming large, why? It's simple to comprehend that when things are high in number the procedures for supervision and control become complicated. There are actually many reasons behind unbearable traffic congestion and one of them is excessive number of cars. The number of cars is increasing rapidly. Let's now come back to the main point, how do cars actually cause traffic jam? Easily one can figure out by looking around while remaining stuck on the roads esp. during traffic congestion that merely two-three big and some small buses are stuck whereas hundreds of cars are queuing up all over the road. And each car is carrying either a single or two-three passengers at a time. It's like using an entire building not an apartment for a single nuclear family. Lately, the UAE govt. has made the provision for moderately-long way journey from one place to another by comfortable as well as affordable giant buses to ease the traffic congestion. And people are getting interested in it as it costs them less and provides them safety and saves their time too. However, our respectable rich citizens can come forward to help ease traffic jam by phasing out the unnecessary purchase of new cars. And we had better avoid using cars unnecessarily. If we think deep down we'll find that these cars are one of the causes behind traffic jam and responsible for air pollution, squandering of time, money, fuel etc. However, the government also needs to think about actual number of foot-over bridges as needed, widening of roads, underground rail-crossing system, setting discouraging tax rate on cars (to lessen the statistics), launching more double decker buses like-- Volvo, more flyovers on busy avenues, no approval for industrial buildings like garments factory and other manufacturing industries within the capital city in order to ease the traffic system in the capital. We are indeed in need of changes before the problems get further aggravated.
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