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1、TrafficCongestioninBeijing:WhattoDo?TrafficcongestionisaprominentprobleminBeijingwithautomobilesincreasingby10percentannuallyandroadsbeingextendedbyonly2percent.Withthisinmind,www.china.org.cninterviewedZhangJianfei,amemberoftheChinesePeople’sPoliticalConsultativeConferenceandalsovice
2、-presidentofPlanandResearchInstituteoftheMinistryofCommunication,whoputforwardhisownproposalsonhowtodealwiththetrafficproblemsinBeijing.TherapidincreasingofautomobilesseemstobeoverwhelminginBeijingaspeople’sincomesincreasewhilepricesofautomobilesdecrease.Moreover,ZhangJianfeisaid,pric
3、eforhousinginBeijingisquitehigh,especiallyneartheheartofthecitywherehousesgoforashighas10,000yuan(US$1,209.6)persquaremeter.Inresponse,residentswhohavetomovetothesuburbsalsobuycarsastheirmeansoftransport.Butdevelopmentofroadshasnotmatchedtherapidincreaseofautomobiles.Ifappropriatemeas
4、uresaretaken,theresultingtrafficcongestioncanbedealtwith.HowtodealwithBeijing’strafficcongestions?ZhangJianfeiputsforwardafive-pointproposal:l·Increasefeesforparking.Mostcarownersarehigh-incomepeopleforwhomtheimpactofahikeinparkingfeeswillbeminimal,Zhangsaid.Beijing’sparkingfeesnoware
5、muchlowercomparedwithShanghai,GuangzhouorChongqing.Forinstance,itcosts5yuan(about60cents)anhourtoparkinGuangzhou,butonly2yuan(about24cents)forawholedayinBeijing.Thelowparkingfeesonlyencouragerandomcar-buyingbyBeijingers,andreasonableparkingfeescanhelpdealwiththetrafficcongestionsinBei
6、jing.l·Addmoreparallelroadstoformamoreefficientnetwork.ZhangsaidroadreconstructioninBeijinghasabadhabitoffavoringwideningofexistinghighways,unfavorabletoaddressingthetrafficproblem.Firstofall,it’sexpensiveandslow.Next,afterroad-wideningiscompleted,someoftheroadsjustattractmoreautomobi
7、les,givingrisetomoreproblems.l·Widencrossroadsthataretrafficbottlenecks.Zhangexplainedthatcrossroadsgetjammedbecausetrafficlightsreducetheflowoftrafficbyabout50percentormoretocauseaseriesoftrafficjamsorgridlock.PeoplecanseetheproblemsatXizhimenandChegongguangcrossroads.Trafficjamsstil
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