How can congestion be reduced in busy towns and motorways without drivers incurring any costs?
Busy towns difficult, however motorways would be helped if the short distance traffic was taken off the road. You will notice that all signage has been removed from roads near motorways and that it is more difficult to use to old A roads in consequence. Like Parkinson’s Law cars appear to fill the road space available, especially in the SE of England, most of which are foreign lorries whose drivers pay nothing towards our roads system.
For some towns or areas there could be a commuter center with lots of free parking. Commuters could then take a bus or subway car to a location close to where they work. The costs could be tax deductible. For instance, one commuter center would work for my town since most of the population either works in town or commutes further in towards DC. Those that have to go to DC must travel through heavy congestion. I think that a lot of them would really love the opportunity to ride a bus either to a metro stop or into McLean or DC itself to a location within walking distance to where they work. Further money could be made for the municipality by offering up partnerships for construction with companies like Starbucks or McDonalds who could in turn provide commuters with breakfast or a quick snack. With proper planning and execution a commuter center could cut down on traffic considerably and save commuters wear and tear on their vehicles as well as saving them money from not having to buy as
Employ people to design road layouts that actually drive unlike the person who designed the latest change to a road near me. They put traffic lights on a T-junction (Great at 8-9am, 4-5pm when there is excessive traffic about not so at other times, so making them ‘part-time’ lights would be far more environmentally friendly.) Single lane for left and right turning so when the bus comes down on the far side and stops all traffic because they’ve also put a 100 metre bus-lane to by-pass the lights, yet it is perfectly safe for traffic coming from the right to move, or traffic coming from the south to move to the left, or traffic coming from the left turning right, of which the latter two aren’t possible because they’re both single lanes. If only some thought had actually been put into it could of reduced congestion now it only builds it up! Derby Town centre is just a mess, basically, look at Derby, and look at “what not to do” and you won’t go far wrong.
